About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Ben O'Quigley, Bernard McGlinchey, Bryan Alton, Charles McDonald (Irish politician), Denis J. O'Sullivan, Dermot Honan, Dominick Murphy, Donall O Conallain, Eamon Rooney, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Farrell McElgunn, Garret FitzGerald, Gerald Boland, Jack Fitzgerald (politician), Jack McQuillan, James Dooge, James Ryan (Irish politician), John Brennan (Irish senator), John Conlan (Monaghan politician), John J. Nash, John Mannion, Snr, John Ormonde, Joseph Farrell, Joseph Lenehan, Kieran Egan (Irish politician), Kit Ahern, Liam Ahern, Liam O Buachalla, Margaret Mary Pearse, Mark Killilea, Snr, Mary Davidson, Michael O'Kennedy, Michael Yeats, Micheal Prendergast, Nora Connolly O'Brien, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, Patrick Crowley (politician), Patrick Fitzsimons, Patrick Malone (Irish politician), Patrick McGowan, Patrick O'Reilly (Cavan politician), Patrick O'Reilly (Longford politician), Patrick Quinlan (politician), Patrick Teehan, Seamus Dolan, Sean Brosnahan, Sean Browne, Sean O'Donovan, Thomas Flanagan (Irish politician), Thomas Mullins (Irish politician), Timothy McAuliffe, Timothy O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail politician), Victor Carton, William Bedell Stanford, William J.E. Jessop, William Ryan (Irish politician), William Sheldon (Irish politician). Excerpt: Garret FitzGerald (9 February 1926 - 19 May 2011) was an Irish politician who was twice Taoiseach of Ireland, serving in office from July 1981 to February 1982 and again from December 1982 to March 1987. FitzGerald was elected to Seanad Eireann in 1965 and was subsequently elected to Dail Eireann as a Fine Gael TD in 1969. He served as Foreign Affairs Minister from 1973 to 1977. FitzGerald was the leader of Fine Gael between 1977 and 1987. He was the son of Desmond FitzGerald, the first Minister for External Affairs of the nascent Irish state following independence from the United Kingdom in 1922. At the time of his death, FitzGerald was the President of the Institute of International and European Affairs, had a column in The Irish Times and made occasional appearances on television programmes. Garret FitzGerald was born in Dublin in 1926 into a very politically active family. His mother Mabel McConnell had worked for Under-Secretary for Ireland, James Macmahon decoding messages sent from London. Each day between 2:30 and 3:30 she would pass any information acquired to either Joe McGrath, Liam Tobin or Garret's father, Desmond. Desmond FitzGerald was London-born and raised. He was Minister for External Affairs at the time of his son's birth. FitzGerald senior, whose father had emigrated as a labourer from Skeheenarinky in County Tipperary, had joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and fought during the 1916 Easter Rising. Desmond FitzGerald had been active in Sinn Fein during the Irish War of Independence, and had been one of the founders of Cumann na nGaedheal. The party was formed to support the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which created the Irish Free State. Although a senior figure on the "pro-treaty" side of Ireland's political divide, Desmond FitzGerald had remained friendly with anti-Treaty republicans such as Belfast man Sean MacEntee, a minister in Eamon de Valera's government, and father-in-law of Conor Cruise O'Brien. The families of Patrick McGilligan and E
