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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Anthony Barry, Ben O'Quigley, Brian Lenihan, Snr, Daniel Hogan (Irish politician), Denis Burke (Irish politician), Dominick Murphy, Eamonn Kissane, Eoin Ryan, Snr, Frank Carter (politician), George O'Brien (Irish politician), Gerry L'Estrange, Harry Colley, Henry Barniville, James O'Keeffe, James Tunney (Irish politician), Jane Dowdall, Joe Sheridan, John Brennan (Irish senator), John O'Donovan (politician), John O'Leary (Wexford politician), John O'Sullivan (Cork politician), Joseph Roddy, Laurence Walsh, Liam Ahern, Liam O Buachalla, Margaret Mary Pearse, Mary Davidson, Michael Hayes (politician), Micheal Prendergast, Nora Connolly O'Brien, Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, Paddy Donegan, Padraig O Siochfhradha, Patrick Baxter, Patrick Connor (Irish politician), Patrick Crowe, Patrick Crowley (politician), Patrick Fitzsimons, Patrick O'Reilly (Longford politician), Patrick Quinlan (politician), Patrick Teehan, Peter Lynch (politician), Robert Farnan (physician), Robert Lahiffe, Sean Hayes (Tipperary politician), Sean Moylan, Sean O'Donovan, Sean O'Grady (politician), Tadhg Crowley, Thomas Mullins (Irish politician), Thomas Ruane, Timothy O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail politician), Victor Carton, William Bedell Stanford, William Fearon, William J.E. Jessop, William O'Callaghan (politician). Excerpt: Brian Patrick Lenihan (17 November 1930 - 1 November 1995) was an Irish Fianna Fail politician, who served in a range of cabinet positions, most notably as Tanaiste (deputy Prime Minister), Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Justice. Lenihan sat for many years as a Fianna Fail representative in both houses of the Irish parliament, Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann. He served numerous terms as a government minister, was appointed Tanaiste in 1987, and stood unsuccessfully for the Irish presidency in 1990. He was a member of a family political dynasty; his father, Patrick Lenihan, and sister both followed him into Dail Eireann; his sister Mary O'Rourke sitting in cabinet with him. Two of his sons, Brian Lenihan, Jnr and Conor Lenihan, became TDs in the 1990s. Brian Lenihan, Jnr served as Minister for Finance and Conor was Minister of State in the government of Taoiseach Brian Cowen. Two phrases associated with him, No problem and On mature recollection, entered the Irish political lexicon. Born in Dundalk, County Louth, Lenihan was the son of Patrick Lenihan and Anne Scanlon. His father had been active in the Old IRA and saw action during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. He had been an admirer of Michael Collins and took the pro-Treaty side in 1922 before later returning to his studies and qualifying as a teacher. Lenihan, who was one of five children, grew up in Athlone. He was educated at Marist College in the town before later studying law at University College Dublin, where he was actively involved as a Committee Member on the Law Society. He later qualified as a barrister from King's Inns practised law for a few years before becoming a full-time politician. Lenihan first entered politics in 1954 when he ran as a Fianna Fail candidate in Longford-Westmeath in that year's general election. Of the four Fianna Fail candidates Lenihan was the only one not to be elected. Three years later Lenihan contested the 1957 general election, this
