List of Irish politicians
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/* People who served in both British Houses of Commons and Irish Houses of the Oireachtas */ William Duffy
{{Politics of the Republic of Ireland}}
This is an incomplete list of public-representative office-holders, elected and appointed, past and present, in both the [[Republic of Ireland]] and [[Northern Ireland]]. The offices covered are [[Teachta Dála|TD]]s, [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]s, [[President of Ireland|President]]s, [[Councillor]]s, [[Member of Parliament|MP]]s, [[Parliament of Northern Ireland|Stormont MP]]s, Members of the [[Sunningdale Agreement|Sunningdale Assembly]] (as Mem.NI.Assmb), [[Northern Ireland Assembly|MLA]]s, [[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]s, [[European Commission|Commissioner]]s and Members of the [[Irish House of Commons]] (as Mem IHC).
Holders of other offices, such as Kings-representative (ie [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State|Governors General]]) or historical offices such as [[High King of Ireland]] are listed in the ''Others'' section.
==Use of the term "Irish"==
It should be remembered that not everyone born on the island of Ireland sees themselves as Irish, as is commonly assumed by outsiders. Particularly in [[Northern Ireland]], some also regard themselves as British and/or do not regard themselves as Irish at all. In Northern Ireland in particular, there is no common consensus on what the term "Irish" entails. It should not be therefore assumed that all people on this list would consider themselves to be "Irish".
==Political parties==
Party membership is indicated by the colour below. It is the same colour-scheme as used in all articles on Irish politics, for example: [[Members of the 29th Dáil]].
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|- style="background: #efefef; border-bottom: 2px solid gray;"
!colspan="2"|Party
|-
! style="background-color: {{Clann na Poblachta/meta/color}}" |
|[[Clann na Poblachta]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Clann na Talmhan/meta/color}}" |
|[[Clann na Talmhan]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Cumann na nGaedhael]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Democratic Left (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Democratic Left (Ireland)|Democratic Left]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Farmers' Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Farmers' Party (Ireland)|Farmers Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Fianna Fáil]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Fine Gael]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Home Rule League|Home Rule]] / [[Irish Parliamentary Party|IPP]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|Independent
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Independent Fianna Fáil]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{National Centre Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[National Centre Party (Ireland)|National Centre Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{National Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[National Labour Party (Ireland)|National Labour Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{National League Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[National League Party|National League]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{National Progressive Democrats (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[National Progressive Democrats (Ireland)|National Progressive Democrats]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Progressive Democrats]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Sinn Féin]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Socialist Party (Ireland)|Socialist Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers Party]]
|}
==Office holders, A–C==
{|align=top class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!width=130 colspan=2|Name
!Born
!Died
!width=80|Party
!width=90|Office
!width=70|Term
!colspan=2|Notes
|-
|colspan=8|'''A'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Henry Abbot (Irish politician)|Henry Abbot]]||unk.|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987-89||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Carrie Acheson]]||1934|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-82||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerry Adams]]||1948|| ||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1983-92 1997- ||rowspan=2|Leader of [[Sinn Féin]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Northern Ireland Assembly|MLA]]||1998-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bertie Ahern]]||1951|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977- ||[[Taoiseach]] (1997-2008), TD for [[Dublin Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Central]],
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dermot Ahern]]||1955|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987-||TD for [[Louth (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Louth]] Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Kit Ahern]]||1915|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-81||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Ahern]]||1916||1974||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-74||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Ahern (Irish politician)|Michael Ahern]]||1949|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982- ||TD for [[Cork East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Ahern]]||1944|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992- ||TD for [[Dublin North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Nuala Ahern]]||1949|| ||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-2004||MEP for Leinster constituency
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Frank Aiken]]||1896||1983||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1923-73||[[Tánaiste]] (1965-1969)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bernard Allen (Irish politician)|Bernard Allen]]||1944|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981- ||TD for [[Cork North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Denis Allen]]||1896||1961||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1932-33 1944-61||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Lorcan Allen]]||unk.|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-82||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Barry Andrews (Irish politician)|Barry Andrews]]||1967|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[David Andrews]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-2002||Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998-2000)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Niall Andrews]]||1937||2006||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-87||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1984-2004||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Ardagh]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997- ||TD for [[Dublin South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Aylward]]||1952|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-||rowspan=2|TD for [[Carlow-Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Carlow-Kilkenny]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2004-
|-
|colspan=8|'''B'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Banotti]]||1939|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1984-2004 ||Candidate in the [[Irish presidential election, 1997]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Monica Barnes]]||1936|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982-2002||TD & Senator
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Barrett (Irish politician)|Michael Barrett]]||1927||2006||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Barrett (Irish politician)|Seán Barrett]]||1944|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-2002||Minister for Defence (1995-1997)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Sylvester Barrett]]||1926||2002||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1968-87||rowspan=2|Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1984-89
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Peter Barry]]||1928|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-97||Minister for Foreign Affairs (1982-1987)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[George Bartley]]|| || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerald Bartley]]||1898||1974||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1932-65||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Beegan]]||1895||1958||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Thomas Bellew]]|| || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Belton]]|| || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Niamh Bhreathnach]]||1945|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992-97 ||Minister for Education (1993-1997)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Harry Blaney]]||1928|| ||[[Independent Fianna Fáil|Ind. FF]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-2002||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Neal Blaney]]||1893||1948||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Neil Blaney]]||1922||1995||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1948-71||rowspan=3|Minister for Agriculture (1966-1970)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Independent Fianna Fáil|Ind. FF]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1971-95
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1979-84 1989-94
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Niall Blaney]]||1974|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-06||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Independent Fianna Fáil|Ind. FF]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2006-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ernest Blythe]]||1889||1975||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-23||rowspan=3|Minister for Finance (1923-1932)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Cumann na nGaedhael|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1923-33
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1933-36
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerald Boland]]||1885||1973||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1923-26||rowspan=3|Minister for Posts & Telegraphs
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1926-61
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1961-69
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Kevin Boland]]||1917||2001||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1957-70||Minister for Local Government
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dan Boyle]]||1962||||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerard Brady]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Johnny Brady]]||1948|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Martin Brady]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Vincent Brady]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pat Breen]]||1957|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Clare (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Clare]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joseph Brennan (Irish politician)|Joseph Brennan]]||1913||1980||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Séamus Brennan]]||1948|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1977-81||rowspan=2 |TD for [[Dublin South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South]], Minister for Transport (2002-2004)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ben Briscoe]]||1934|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-2002||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Robert Briscoe (politician)|Bob Briscoe]]||1894||1969||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1927-65||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Browne (Fianna Fáil)|John Browne]]||1948|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982- ||TD for [[Wexford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wexford]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Browne (Fine Gael)|John Browne]]||1936|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1989-2002 ||TD for [[Carlow-Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Carlow-Kilkenny]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Clann na Poblachta/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Browne]]||1915||1997||[[Clann na Poblachta|CnaP]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1948-51 ||rowspan=7|Controversial Health Minister (1948-51)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1951-53
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1953-54
|-
! style="background-color: {{National Progressive Democrats (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Ind./[[National Progressive Democrats (Ireland)|Progressive]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1957-63
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1963-65 1969-73
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1973-77
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Ind./Socialist||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-82
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Cathal Brugha]]||1874||1922||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-22||Minister for Defence in the 1st Dáil
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ruairí Brugha]]||1917||2006||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1973-77||Also Senator, MEP
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Bruton]]||1947|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-2004||TD for [[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]], [[Taoiseach]] (1994-1997), Party leader
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Richard Bruton]]||1953|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982-||TD for [[Dublin North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North Central]], Deputy-Leader
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Burke]]||1928||2005||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-77 1979-89 1992-2002||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[P.J. Burke]]|| || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ray Burke]]||1943|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1973-97||Minister for Foreign Affairs, jailed 2005 for tax fraud
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Richard Burke (politician)|Richard Burke]]||1932|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-77||rowspan=2|Minister and European Commissioner (1977-1980)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[European Commission|Commissioner]]||1977-80 1982-84
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Isaac Butt]]||1813||1879||[[Home Rule League|Home Rule]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1874-79||Founder and leader
|-
|colspan=8|'''C'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joe Callanan]]||1949|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Galway East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Galway East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Johnny Callanan]]||1910||1982||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ivor Callely]]||1958|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pat Carey]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Carty (Irish politician)|John Carty]]||1950|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Mayo]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Carty]]||1916||1975||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Donie Cassidy]]||1945|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Westmeath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Westmeath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Erskine Hamilton Childers|Erskine H. Childers]]||1905||1974||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1938-73||rowspan=2|Fourth [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1973-74
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Kathleen Clarke]]||1878||1972||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1921-36||First female [[Lord Mayor of Dublin]] (1939)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Frank Cluskey]]||1930||1989||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-81 1982-89||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] Leader (1977-1981)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[George Colley]]||1925||1983||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-83||[[Tánaiste]] (1977-1981)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Henry Colley]]||1891||1972||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerard Collins]]||1938|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1967-97||rowspan=2|Minister for Foreign Affairs
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-2004
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Collins (Limerick politician)|Michael Collins]]||1941|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Limerick West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Limerick West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]]||1890||1922||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-22||Assassinated [[Chairman of the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland|Chairman of the Provisional Government]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paul Connaughton]]||1944|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Galway East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Galway East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brendan Corish]]||1918||1990||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1945-82||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] Leader, [[Tánaiste]] (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Cosgrave]]||1920|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1944-81||[[Taoiseach]] (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[W. T. Cosgrave]]||1880||1965||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-23||rowspan=3|[[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|President of the Executive Council]] (1923-1932)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Cumann na nGaedhael|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1923-33
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1933-44
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John A. Costello]]||1891||1976||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1933-61||[[Taoiseach]] (1948-1951 & 1954-1957)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Cathal Coughlan (politician)|Cathal Coughlan]]||1937||1986||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Clement Coughlan]]||1942||1983||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Coughlan (politician)|Mary Coughlan]]||1965|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987-||TD for [[Donegal South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Donegal South West]], Minister for Social & Family Affairs (2002-2004)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Hugh Coveney]]||1935||1998||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-87 1994-98||TD for [[Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Simon Coveney]]||1972|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bernard Cowen|Ber Cowen]]||1932||1984||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-84||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brian Cowen]]||1960|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1984-||TD for [[Laois-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Laois-Offaly]],Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pat Cox]]||1952|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1989-94||rowspan=3|Former [[President of the European Parliament]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1989-94
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-2004
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seymour Crawford]]||1944|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cavan-Monaghan (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cavan-Monaghan]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Cregan (Irish politician)|John Cregan]]||1961|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Limerick West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Limerick West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jerry Cronin]]|| || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brian Crowley]]||1964|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ciarán Cuffe]]||1963|| ||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Martin Cullen]]||1954|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987-89||rowspan=4|TD for [[Waterford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Waterford]], Minister for the Environment & Local Government (2002-present)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1989-92
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992-94
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1994-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Curran]]|| || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Curran (Irish politician)|John Curran]]||1960|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin Mid West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Mid West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Austin Currie]]||1939|| || ||[[Parliament of Northern Ireland|Stormont MP]]||1964-72||rowspan=3 |Candidate in [[Irish presidential election, 1990]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]||Mem. NI Assmb.||1973-75
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1989-2002
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Cushnahan]]||1948|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1989-2004||
|-
|}
==Office holders, D–G==
{|align=top class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!width=130 colspan=2|Name
!Born
!Died
!width=80|Party
!width=90|Office
!width=70|Term
!colspan=2|Notes
|-
|colspan=8|'''D'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brendan Daly]]||1940|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1973-92 1997-2002||rowspan=2|Minister for the Marine (1987-1989)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1992-97
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Davern]]||1945|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-81 1987-||rowspan=2|TD for [[Tipperary South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Tipperary South]] Minister for Education (1991-1992)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1979-84
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Austin Deasy]]||1936|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1973-77||rowspan=2|Minister for Agriculture (1982-1987)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-2002
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Deasy]]||1967|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Waterford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Waterford]], son of [[Austin Deasy]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jimmy Deenihan]]||1952|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Dempsey]]||1953|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987-||TD for [[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]], Minister for Education & Science (2002-2004)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tony Dempsey]]||1944|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Wexford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wexford]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Dennehy]]||1940|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987- ||TD for [[Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Proinsias De Rossa]]||1940|| ||[[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982-92||rowspan=5|Former leader of [[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers Party]] and [[Democratic Left (Ireland)|Democratic Left]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1989-92
|-
! style="background-color: {{Democratic Left (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Democratic Left (Ireland)|DL]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992-97
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-2002
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1999-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Barry Desmond]]||1935|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-89||rowspan=2|Minister for Social Welfare (1982-1987)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1989-94
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eileen Desmond]]||1932||2005||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-69 1973-87 ||rowspan=3|Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1969-73
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1979-81
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Éamon de Valera]]||1882||1975||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-26||rowspan=3|Born in [[United States|USA]]. [[Taoiseach]] (1932-1948, 1951-54, 1957-1959)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1926-59
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1959-73
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Síle de Valera]]||1954|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-81 1987-||rowspan=2|TD for [[Clare (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Clare]], Minister for Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht (1997-2002)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1979-84
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Vivion de Valera]]||1910||1982||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1945-81||Managing director of [[The Irish Press]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jimmy Devins]]||1948|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Sligo-Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Sligo-Leitrim]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{National Centre Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Dillon (politician)|James Dillon]]||1902||1986||[[National Centre Party (Ireland)|Centre Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1932-33||rowspan=3|[[Fine Gael]] Leader (1959-1965)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1933-42 1953-69
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1942-53
|-
! style="background-color: {{Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Dillon]]||1851||1927||[[Irish Parliamentary Party|IPP]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1880-83 1885-1918 ||Leader [[Irish Parliamentary Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Doherty (politician)|Seán Doherty]]||1944||2005||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-89 1992-2002||rowspan=2|Minister for Justice (1982)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1989-92
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paddy Donegan]]||1923||2000||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1954-57 1961-81||Minister for Defence (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Dooge]]||1922|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1961-77 1981-87||Minister for Foreign Affairs (1981-1982)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Avril Doyle]]||1949|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1999- ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982-89 1992-97||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Alan Dukes]]||1945|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-2002||Leader (1987-1990)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bernard Durkan]]||1945|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981- ||TD for [[Kildare North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kildare North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mark Durkan]]||1960|| ||[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]||[[Northern Ireland Assembly|MLA]]||1998-||rowspan=2|Leader of the [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||2005-
|-
|colspan=8|'''E'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Ellis (Irish politician)|John Ellis]]||1952|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981- ||TD for [[Sligo-Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Sligo-Leitrim]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Damien English]]||1975|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Olwyn Enright]]||1974|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Laois-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Laois-Offaly]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Everett]]||1889||1967||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1923-67||
|-
|colspan=8|'''F'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Frank Fahey]]||1951|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982-92 1997-||rowspan=2|TD for [[Galway West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Galway West]], Minister for the Marine & Natural Resources (2000-2002)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1992-97
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jackie Fahey]]||1928|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-92||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Frank Fahy]]||1880||1953||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pádraig Faulkner]]||1918|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Martin Ferris]]||1958|| ||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Finneran]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Longford-Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Longford-Roscommon]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerry Fitt]]||1926||2005||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Parliament of Northern Ireland|Stormont MP]]||1962-64||rowspan=5|First leader of the [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Republican Labour Party|Rep. Labour]]||[[Parliament of Northern Ireland|Stormont MP]]||1964-unk.
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1966-73
|-
! style="background-color: {{Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1973-79
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Member of Parliament#United Kingdom|MP]]||1979-83
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Desmond FitzGerald (politician)|Desmond FitzGerald]]||1888||1947||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-23||rowspan=4|Minister for External Affairs (1923-1927)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Cumann na nGaedheal|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1923-33
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1933-38
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1938-43
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Garret FitzGerald]]||1926|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1965-69||rowspan=2|[[Taoiseach]] (1981-82, 1982-87)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-92
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gene FitzGerald]]||1932|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dermot Fitzpatrick]]||1940|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Dublin politician)|Tom Fitzpatrick]]||1926|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-82||TD for [[Dublin Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Central]] and [[Dublin South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Thomas J. Fitzpatrick (Cavan politician)|Tom Fitzpatrick]]||1918||2006||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-89||Fine Gael Minister, [[Ceann Comhairle]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Fitzsimons]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1984-2004||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Oliver J. Flanagan]]||1920||1987||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1943-87||Minister for Defence (1976-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Flanagan]]||1922||1993||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1951-77||rowspan=2|Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1979-89
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Fleming (politician)|Seán Fleming]]||1958|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Laois-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Laois-Offaly]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Beverley Flynn]]||1966|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-99 2002-04||rowspan=2|Daughter of Pádraig Flynn
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1999-2002 2004-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pádraig Flynn]]||1939|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-93||rowspan=2|Minister for the Environment (1987-1991)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[European Commission|Commissioner]]||1993-99
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Denis Foley]]||1934|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||-2002||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Johnny Fox]]||1948||1995||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992-96||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mildred Fox]]||1971|| ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1996-||
|-
|colspan=8|'''G'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Denis Gallagher]]||1922||2001||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1973-89||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pat "the Cope" Gallagher]]||1948|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Donegal South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Donegal South West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Roger Garland]]||1933|| ||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Dublin South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South]] (1989-1992)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Geoghegan]]||1886||1951||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Johnny Geoghegan]]||1913||1975||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Máire Geoghegan-Quinn]]||1950|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1975-97||Minister for Justice (1993-1994)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Gibbons (Irish politician)|Jim Gibbons]]||1924||1997||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1957-82||Minister for Defence (1969-1970)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Alan Gillis]]|| || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-99||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Alice Glenn]]||1927|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-182, 1982-1987||TD for [[Dublin Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Glennon]]||1953|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paul Gogarty]]||1968||||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Dublin Mid West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Mid West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Gormley]]||1959||||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Dublin South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Henry Grattan]]||1746||1820||National Party||Mem. [[Irish House of Commons|IHC]]||1775-97<br>1800||rowspan=2|18th century defender of Irish parliamentary independence and opponent of the [[Act of Union 1800|Act of Union]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[British Whig Party|Whig]]||[[Member of Parliament#United Kingdom|MP]]||1805-20
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Grealish]]||1965|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tony Gregory]]||1947|| ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1982-||Supporter of [[Fianna Fáil]] government (1982)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Arthur Griffith]]||1871||1922||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-22||[[President of Dáil Éireann]] (Jan-Aug 1922) & 1921 [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] delegation leader
|-
|}
==Office holders, H–M==
{|align=top class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!width=130 colspan=2|Name
!Born
!Died
!width=80|Party
!width=90|Office
!width=70|Term
!colspan=2|Notes
|-
|colspan=8|'''H'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Hanafin]]||1959|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Marian Harkin]]||1953|| ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2004-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Harney]]||1953|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Tánaiste]], [[Progressive Democrats]] leader
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Charles Haughey]]||1925||2006||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1957-92||Taoiseach (1979-81, 1982, 1987-92)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Haughey]]||1961|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Hayes (politician)|Michael Hayes]]||1889||1976||[[Cumann na nGaedhael|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Ceann Comhairle]] (1922-1932)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom Hayes (politician)|Tom Hayes]]||1952|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Tipperary South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Tipperary South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Timothy Michael Healy|Tim Healy]]||1885||1931|| ||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]|| ||First [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State|Governor-General]] of the [[Irish Free State]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jackie Healy-Rae]]||1931|| ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-||TD for [[Kerry South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Socialist Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joe Higgins]]||1949|| ||[[Socialist Party (Ireland)|Socialist]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Higgins (Irish politician)|Jim Higgins]]||1945|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||-2002||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael D. Higgins]]||1941|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister Arts, Culture & Gaeltacht (1994-1997)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Hillery]]||1923||2008||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1976-90||Sixth [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Hilliard]]||1903||1982||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Máire Hoctor]]||1963|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Tipperary North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Tipperary North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Hogan (Tipperary politician)|Patrick Hogan]]|| || ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-73||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Hogan (Ceann Comhairle)|Patrick Hogan]]||1886||1969||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Ceann Comhairle]] (1951-1967)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Hogan (Cumann na nGaedheal)|Patrick Hogan]]||1891||1937||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1921-37||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Phil Hogan]]||1960|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Carlow-Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Carlow-Kilkenny]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brendan Howlin]]||1956|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987- ||Min. for Health(1993-1994), Minister for the Environment (1994-1997)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Hume]]||1937|| ||[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]|| || ||Leader [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]] (1979-2001)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gemma Hussey]]||1938|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Education (1982-86)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Douglas Hyde]]||1860||1949|| ||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1938-1945||Founder [[Gaelic League]], first [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Hyland]]||1933|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-2004||
|-
|colspan=8|'''J'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joe Jacob]]||1939|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Wicklow (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wicklow]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Thomas Johnson (Irish politician)|Thomas Johnson]]||1872||1963||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||First Labour Party leader
|-
|colspan=8|'''K'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Kavanagh]]||1935|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for the Environment (1983-1986)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Justin Keating]]||1930|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Industry & Commerce (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Cecilia Keaveney]]||1968|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Donegal North East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Donegal North East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paul Kehoe]]||1973|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Wexford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wexford]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Billy Kelleher]]||1968|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Peter Kelly (Irish politician)|Peter Kelly]]||1944|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Longford-Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Longford-Roscommon]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Kemmy]]||1936||1997||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Founder of the Democratic Socialist Party
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Enda Kenny]]||1951|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Mayo]], Fine Gael Leader (2002-present)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tony Killeen]]||1952|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Clare (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Clare]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mark Killilea, Snr]]||1896||1970||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mark Killilea, Jnr]]||1939|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1989-99||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Séamus Kirk]]||1945|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Louth (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Louth]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eamonn Kissane]]||unk.||1979||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael F. Kitt]]||1914||1974||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael P. Kitt]]||1950|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom Kitt]]||1952|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South]]
|-
|colspan=8|'''L'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Lalor]]||1926|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Posts & Telegraphs
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Lawlor]]||1945||2005||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Spent a term in jail for corruption
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eileen Lemass]]||1932|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Lemass, Jnr]]||1929||1976||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Lemass]]||1899||1971||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Taoiseach]] (1959-1966)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brian Lenihan, Snr]]||1930||1995||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-73 1977-95||Minister, [[Tánaiste]] & defeated presidential candidate
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brian Lenihan, Jnr]]||1959|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Conor Lenihan]]||1963|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Lenihan]]||1902||1970||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom Leonard (Irish politician)|Tom Leonard]]||1924||2004||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1977-81 1983-87||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick Little]]||1884||1963||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Lowry]]||1956|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Communications (1994-1996)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jack Lynch]]||1917||1999||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Taoiseach]] (1966-1973 & 1977-1979)
|-
|colspan=8|'''M'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Social Democratic and Labour Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seamus Mallon]]||1936|| ||[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]||[[Member of parliament|MP]]|| ||Former deputy-leader of the [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom Maguire]]||1892||1993||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1921-27||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bernie Malone]]|| || ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-99||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz|Countess Markiewicz]]||1868||1927||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-27||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Micheál Martin]]||1960|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South Central]] Minister for Health & Children (2002-present)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary McAleese]]||1951|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1997-||Eighth [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Clann na Poblachta/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán MacBride]]||1904||1988||[[Clann na Poblachta|CnaP]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1947-57||[[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] chief, minister (1948-51),lawyer and founder member of [[Amnesty International]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joe McCartin]]||1939|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1979-2004||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pádraic McCormack]]||1942|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||TD for [[Galway West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Galway West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Charlie McCreevy]]||1949|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||-2004||TD for [[Kildare North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kildare North]] Minister for Finance (2002-present)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tomás Mac Curtain]]||1884||1920||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Councillor]]|| ||[[Lord Mayor of Cork]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim McDaid]]||1949|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Donegal North East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Donegal North East]] Minister for Tourism & Sport (1997-2002)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Lou McDonald]]||1969|| ||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2002-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael McDowell]]||1951|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán MacEntee]]||1889||1984||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Tánaiste]] (1959-1965)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Shane McEntee]]||1957|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom McEllistrim, Snr]]||1894||1973||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom McEllistrim, Jnr]]||1932||2000||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom McEllistrim III]]||1968|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick McGilligan]]||1889||1979||[[Cumann na nGaedhael|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Industry & Commerce (1924-1932)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dinny McGinley]]||1945|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Donegal South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Donegal South West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tomás Mac Giolla]]||1924|| ||[[The Workers Party (Ireland)|Workers]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Former leader of [[The Workers Party (Ireland)|The Workers Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent/meta/color}}" |
|[[Finian McGrath]]||1953|| ||[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paul McGrath (politician)|Paul McGrath]]||1948|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Westmeath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Westmeath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John J. McGuinness]]||1955|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Carlow-Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Carlow-Kilkenny]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mairead McGuinness]]||1959|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2004- ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Martin McGuinness]]||1950|| ||[[Sinn Féin]]|| || ||Chief Negotiator on [[Belfast Agreement]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patricia McKenna]]||1957|| ||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1994-2004||MEP for Dublin
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eoin MacNeill]]||1867||1945||[[Cumann na nGaedhael|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Education (1923-1925)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ray MacSharry]]||1938|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Tánaiste]] (1981-1982)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Terence MacSwiney]]||1879||1920||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Councillor]]|| ||[[Lord Mayor of Cork]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gay Mitchell]]||1951|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Mitchell (politician)|Jim Mitchell]]||1946||2002||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1982-1987)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Olivia Mitchell]]||1947|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bobby Molloy]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1965-86||Minister for Defence (1977-1979)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1986-2002||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Moloney (politician)|John Moloney]]||1953|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Laois-Offaly (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Laois-Offaly]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Moore (Irish politician)|Seán Moore]]||1913||1986||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Moylan]]||1888||1957||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Donal Moynihan (Cork politician)|Donal Moynihan]]||1941|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Moynihan (Kerry politician)|Michael Moynihan]]||1917||2001||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||unk.||TD for [[Kerry South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Moynihan (Cork politician)|Michael Moynihan]]||1968|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Mulcahy (Irish politician)|Michael Mulcahy]]||1945|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Richard Mulcahy]]||1886||1971||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Fine Gael]] leader (1944-1959)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerard Murphy (Irish politician)|Gerard Murphy]]||1951|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork North West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North West]]
|-
|}
==Office holders, N–Q==
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!width=130 colspan=2|Name
!Born
!Died
!width=80|Party
!width=90|Office
!width=70|Term
!colspan=2|Notes
|-
|colspan=8|'''N'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Denis Naughten]]||1973|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997- ||TD for [[Longford-Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Longford-Roscommon]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Naughten]]||1944||1996||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Longford-Roscommon (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Longford-Roscommon]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dan Neville]]||1946|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Limerick West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Limerick West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[M. J. Nolan]]||1951|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Carlow-Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Carlow-Kilkenny]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom Nolan (Irish politician)|Tom Nolan]]||1921||1992||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael J. Noonan (Fianna Fáil)|Michael J. Noonan]]||1935|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Noonan]]||1943|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Limerick East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Limerick East]] Leader (2001-2002)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[David Norris (politician)|David Norris]]||1944|| ||Independent||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]|| ||Senator, Joycean scholar and gay rights campaigner
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[William Norton]]||1900||1960||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Tánaiste]] (1948-1951 & 1954-1957)
|-
|colspan=8|'''O'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ruairí Ó Brádaigh]]||1932|| ||[[Sinn Féin]]|| || ||Former leader of [[Sinn Féin]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Donnchadh Ó Briain]]||1897||1981||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Conor Cruise O'Brien]]||1917|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1969-79||Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[William O'Brien]]||1852||1928||Nationalist||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]|| ||[[Irish National Land League]] activist
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin]]||1953|| ||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Daniel O'Connell]]||1775||1847||[[Catholic Association]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]|| ||[[The Liberator]] - Leader of campaign for [[Catholic Emancipation]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John O'Connell (Dublin politician)|John O'Connell]]||1930|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John O'Connell (MP)|John O'Connell]]||||1858 ||||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]|| ||son of nationalist leader [[Daniel O'Connell]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Charlie O'Connor]]||1946|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Timothy O'Connor]]||1906||1986||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-77||TD for [[Kerry South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Éamon Ó Cuív]]||1950|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Galway West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Galway West]] Minister for Culture, Gaeltacht & Rural Affairs (2002-present)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh]]||1911||1978||[[Fianna Fáil]]|||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1974-76||Fifth [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Willie O'Dea]]||1952|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Limerick East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Limerick East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tomás Ó Deirg]]||1897||1956||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Education (1932-1939)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Denis O'Donovan]]||1955|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Patrick O'Donnell]]|| ||1970||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom O'Donnell]]||1926|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-87||Minister (73-77)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John O'Donoghue (politician)|John O'Donoghue]]||1956|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Arts, Tourism and Sport (2002-present)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Martin O'Donoghue]]||1933|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Economic Planning & Development (1977-1979)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Fergus O'Dowd]]||1948|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Louth (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Louth]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Ó Fearghail]]||1960|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Kildare South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kildare South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel O'Flynn]]||1951|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Rory O'Hanlon]]||1934|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Cavan-Monaghan]], [[Ceann Comhairle]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Kevin O'Higgins]]||1892||1927||[[Cumann na nGaedhael|CnaG]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Home Affairs (1923-1927)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tom O'Higgins]]||1916||2003||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Candidate [[Irish presidential election, 1966]] & [[Irish presidential election, 1973|1973 ]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Thomas F. O'Higgins]]|| ||1953||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Health (1948-1951)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Batt O'Keeffe]]||1945|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork South Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim O'Keeffe]]||1941|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ned O'Keeffe]]||1942|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán T. O'Kelly]]||1882||1966||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1945-59||Second [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael O'Kennedy]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Foreign Affairs (1977-1979)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John O'Leary (Kerry politician)|John O'Leary]]||1933|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||-1997||TD for [[Kerry South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael O'Leary (politician)|Michael O'Leary]]||1936||2006||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Leader (1981-1982)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Desmond O'Malley]]||1936|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Leader of [[Progressive Democrats]] (1985-1993)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Donagh O'Malley]]||1921||1968||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Education
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Fiona O'Malley]]||1968|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||Daughter of Des O'Malley
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Tim O'Malley]]||1944|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Micheál Ó Móráin]]||1912||1983||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Ó Neachtain]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2002-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Ormonde]]||1905||1981||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary O'Rourke]]||1937|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||-2004||Cathaoirleach of [[Seanad Éireann]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||2004- ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paddy O'Toole]]||1938|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Nora Owen]]||1945|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Justice (1994-1997)
|-
|colspan=8|'''P'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Charles Stewart Parnell]]||1846||1891||[[Irish Parliamentary Party|IPP]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1874-91||Leader of the [[Irish Parliamentary Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ian Paisley]]||1926|| ||[[Democratic Unionist Party|DUP]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]|| ||Leader [[Democratic Unionist Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Democratic Unionist Party|DUP]]||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Democratic Unionist Party/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Democratic Unionist Party|DUP]]||[[Northern Ireland Assembly|MLA]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Séamus Pattison]]||1936|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-||rowspan="2"|[[Ceann Comhairle]] (1997-2002)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1981-83
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Perry (Irish politician)|John Perry]]||1956|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Sligo-Leitrim (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Sligo-Leitrim]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[George Noble Plunkett]]||1851||1948||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Member of parliament|MP]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paddy Power (politician)|Paddy Power]]||1928|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Peter Power]]||1966|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Limerick East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Limerick East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Power]]||1960|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Kildare South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kildare South]]
|-
|colspan=8|'''Q'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ruairí Quinn]]||1946|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Leader (1997-2002)
|-
|}
== Office holders, R–Y ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!width=130 colspan=2|Name
!Born
!Died
!width=80|Party
!width=90|Office
!width=70|Term
!colspan=2|Notes
|-
|colspan=8|'''R'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Workers Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Pat Rabbitte]]||1949|| ||[[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1989-92||rowspan=3|Leader of the [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Democratic Left (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Democratic Left (Ireland)|DL]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992-97
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1997-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Redmond]]||1856||1918||[[Irish Parliamentary Party|IPP]]||[[Member of parliament|MP]]|| ||Leader [[Irish Parliamentary Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Albert Reynolds]]||1932|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||-2002||[[Taoiseach]] (1992-1994)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Ring]]||1953|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Mayo]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Robinson]]||1944|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]|| ||Seventh [[President of Ireland]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[President of Ireland|President]]||1990-1997||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Boyle Roche]]||1736||1807||unk||Mem. [[Irish House of Commons|IHC]]||unk||Eighteenth century member [[Irish House of Commons]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dick Roche]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Wicklow (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wicklow]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[P. J. Ruttledge]]||1892||1952||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eamon Ryan]]||1963|| ||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Dublin South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eoin Ryan, Jnr]]||1953|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1989-92||rowspan=3|TD for [[Dublin South East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1992-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2004-
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Eoin Ryan, Snr]]||1920||2001||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1957-87 ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Ryan (Irish politician)|James Ryan]]||1891||1970||[[Sinn Féin]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1918-26||rowspan=3|Minister for Finance (1957-1965)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1926-65
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Seanad Éireann|Senator]]||1965-69
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Richie Ryan (politician)|Richie Ryan]]||1929|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961-82 ||Minister for Finance (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
| || || || ||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]|| ||
|-
|colspan=8|'''S'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Green Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Trevor Sargent]]||1960|| ||[[Green Party (Ireland)|Green Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Green Party Leader, TD for [[Dublin North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dana (singer)|Dana, Rosemary Scallon]]||1951|| ||Independent||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||1999-2004||TD for Connacht/Ulster
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mae Sexton]]||1955|| ||[[Progressive Democrats|PD]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002-||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Alan Shatter]]||1951|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1981-2002||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[D. D. Sheehan]]||1873||1948||[[Nationalist Party (Ireland)|Nationalist]]||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1901-07||First independent Labour MP
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
| || || ||Independent||[[Member of Parliament|MP]]||1906-18||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Kathy Sinnott]]||1950|| ||Independent||[[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]]||2004-||[[Disability]] rights campaigner
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brendan Smith (politician)|Brendan Smith]]||1956|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cavan-Monaghan (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cavan-Monaghan]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Smith (Irish politician)|Michael Smith]]||1943|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Defence (1997-2004)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Paddy Smith]]||1901||1982||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dick Spring]]||1950|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Tánaiste]] (1982-1987 & 1992-1997)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Emmet Stagg]]||1944|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1987-||TD for [[Kildare North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kildare North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[David Stanton]]||1957|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerard Sweetman]]||1908||1970||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Finance (1954-1957)
|-
|colspan=8|'''T'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mervyn Taylor]]||1931|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Equality & Law Reform (1993-1997)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Madeleine Taylor-Quinn]]||1951|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Billy Timmins]]||1959|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Wicklow (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wicklow]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Oscar Traynor]]||1886||1963||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1936)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Noel Treacy]]||1951|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Galway East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Galway East]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán Treacy (politician)|Seán Treacy]]||1923|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||1961–1997 ||TD for [[Tipperary South (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Tipperary South]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Ulster Unionist Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[David Trimble, Baron Trimble|David Trimble]]||1944|| ||[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]|| || ||Former [[First Minister of Northern Ireland]] and leader of the [[Ulster Unionist Party]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[James Tully (politician)|James Tully]]||1915||1992||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Local Government (1973-1977)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jim Tunney (Irish politician)|Jim Tunney]]||1923||2002||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister of State
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joanna Tuffy]]||1965|| ||[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2007- ||TD for [[Dublin Mid West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Mid West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Twomey]]||1967|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Wexford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wexford]]
|-
|colspan=8|'''U'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Domhnall Ua Buachalla]]||1866||1963||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Governor-General of the Irish Free State|Governor-General]] (1932-36/7)
|-
|colspan=8|'''W'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dan Wallace]]||1942|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Cork North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Wallace]]||1959|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joe Walsh (Irish politician)|Joe Walsh]]||1943|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Cork South West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork South West]] Minister for Agriculture
|-
! style="background-color: {{Independent politician (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Hon. Arthur Wellesley]]||1759||1852||[[Tory]]||Mem. [[Irish House of Commons|IHC]]*||unk||Member of [[Irish House of Commons]], military leader and [[British Prime Minister]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ollie Wilkinson]]||1944|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Waterford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Waterford]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[John P. Wilson|John Wilson]]||1923|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||[[Tánaiste]] (1990-1992)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Michael Woods (politician)|Michael Woods]]||1935|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||TD for [[Dublin North East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North East]] Minister for Education & Science (200-2002)
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[G. V. Wright]]||1947|| ||[[Fianna Fáil]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]||2002- ||TD for [[Dublin North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North]]
|-
|colspan=8|'''Y'''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Ivan Yates]]||1959|| ||[[Fine Gael]]||[[Teachta Dála|TD]]|| ||Minister for Agriculture, Food & Forestry (1994-1997)
|-
|}
== Notable others (activists etc) ==
This list features Irish activists and revolutionaries, strategists, unelected office holders, unsuccessful election candidates, Irish people in the politics of other nations, historical Irish figures etc. It also includes [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland|Lords Lieutenant]] and [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State|Governors General]], representatives of the King
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="darkgray"
!width=150|Name
!Born
!Died
!Notes
|-
|[[Frederick Boland]]|| || ||Diplomat and Irish delegate to [[UN]]
|-
|[[Brian Boru]]||941||1014||[[High King of Ireland]] 1002-1014
|-
|[[Edmund Burke]]||1729||1797||[[Statesman]], [[British Whig Party|Whig]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
|-
|Sir [[Ulick Burke, 5th Earl of Clanricarde]]|| ||1657||5th Earl of Clanricarde
|-
|[[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde|James Butler]]||1610||1688||[[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]],12th Earl of Ormonde
|-
|[[Roger Casement]]||1864||1916||Human rights campaigner turned revolutionary
|-
|[[Eamonn Ceannt]]||1881||1916||Signatory of 1916 Proclamation
|-
|[[Thomas J. Clarke]]||1857||1916||Signatory of [[1916 Proclamation]]
|-
|[[James Connolly (nationalist)|James Connolly]]||1868||1916||Scottish-born socialist, founder of the [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]] and [[Easter Rising]] participant
|-
|[[Mairead Corrigan]]||1944||-||Co-winner with [[Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)|Betty Williams]] of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in [[1976]]
|-
|[[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]]||1825||1868||Promoter of a federal union for the Canadian provinces
|-
|Patrick Darcy||1598||1668||Active during [[Irish Confederate Wars]]
|-
|[[Michael Davitt]]||1846||1906||[[Irish National Land League]] founder
|-
|[[Robert Emmet]]||1778||1803||Leader of 1803 rebellion
|-
|[[Lord Edward FitzGerald]]||1763||1798||18th Century aristocratic revolutionary
|-
|Garret Fitzgerald|| || ||The Great Earl of Kildare
|-
|[[Richard Martin fitz Oliver]]||1602||1648||Leader during [[Irish Confederate Wars]], approx dob
|-
|[[Willam Joyce]]||1906||1946||[[Lord Haw-Haw]], Nazi propagandist
|-
|[[Jim Larkin]]||1876||1947||Irish Labour leader
|-
|[[Seán Lester]]||1888||1959||Secretary-General of the League of Nations
|-
|[[Richard Martin ("Humanity Dick")|Richard Martin]]||1754||1834||Supporter of [[Ireland|Irish]] [[Catholic Emancipation]], co-founder [[RSPCA]]
|-
|[[Edward Martyn]]||1859||1923||
|-
|[[Seán MacBride]]||1904||1988||Winner of the [[1974]] [[Nobel Peace Prize]] and the [[1976]] [[Lenin Peace Prize]]
|-
|[[Seán Mac Diarmada]]||1883||1916||Signatory of 1916 Proclamation
|-
|[[Thomas MacDonagh]]||1878||1916||Signatory of [[1916 Proclamation]]
|-
|[[Seán Mac Eoin]]||1893||1973||Candidate in [[Irish presidential election, 1959]]
|-
|[[Henry Joy McCracken]]||1767||1798||[[Ulster]] leader of 1798 rebellion
|-
|[[Dermot McMurrough]]||c.1110||1171||King of Leinster
|-
|[[James McNeill]]||1902||1986||Second [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State|Governor-General]] of the [[Irish Free State]]
|-
|Derek Nally||1936|| ||Indep. Candidate in the [[Irish presidential election, 1997]]
|-
|[[Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair|Rory O'Connor]]||?||1198||[[High King of Ireland]]
|-
|[[Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa]]||1831||1915||Veteran Fenian leader
|-
|[[Eoin O'Duffy]]||1892||1944||Leader of the [[Blueshirts]]
|-
|[[The O'Rahilly]]||1878||1916||1916 Leader
|-
|[[Lorcán Ua Tuathail|St. Laurence O'Toole]]||1128||1180||[[Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic)|Archbishop of Dublin]] 1128-80
|-
|[[Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford|Earl Longford]]||1905||2001||Irish-born UK cabinet minister and author
|-
|[[Padraic Pearse]]||1879||1916||[[Easter Rising]] leader, [[poet]], [[teacher]]
|-
|[[Joseph Mary Plunkett]]||1887||1916||Signatory of 1916 Proclamation
|-
|[[Patrick Sarsfield]]||c.1660||1693||[[Earl of Lucan]] - military leader
|-
|[[Theobald Wolfe Tone]]||1763||1798||Nationalist Leader
|-
|[[Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)|Betty Williams]]||1943||-||Co-winner with [[Mairead Corrigan]] of the [[1976]] [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
|-
|[[T. K. Whitaker]]||1916||-||Architect of post-war economic development
|-
|}
==Party leaders==
Party leaders serving 10 years or more are:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan="2"|Leader
! Tenure
! Party
! Period
! Constituency
|-
!rowspan="2" style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|rowspan="2"|[[Ruairí Ó Brádaigh]]
|rowspan="2"|35y
|[[Sinn Féin]]
|1970–1983
|rowspan="2"|[[Longford-Westmeath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Longford-Westmeath]]
|-
|[[Republican Sinn Féin]]
|1986—
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Éamon de Valera]]
|33y
|[[Fianna Fáil]]
|1926–59
|[[Clare (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Clare]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[William Norton]]
|28y
|[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
|1932–60
|[[Kildare (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kildare]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|rowspan="4"|[[Tomás Mac Giolla]]
|rowspan="4"|26y
|[[Sinn Féin]]
|1962–1970
|rowspan="4"|[[Dublin West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Official Sinn Féin]]
|1970–77
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin the Workers Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[Sinn Féin the Workers Party]]
|1977–82
|-
! style="background-color: {{Workers Party of Ireland/meta/color}}" |
|[[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers Party]]
|1982–88
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Gerry Adams]]
|25y
|[[Sinn Féin]]
|1983—
|[[Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Clann na Talmhan/meta/color}}" |
|[[Joseph Blowick]]
|21y
|[[Clann na Talmhan]]
|1944-65
|[[Mayo (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Mayo]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Cumann na nGaedhael/meta/color}}" |
|rowspan="2"|[[W. T. Cosgrave]]
|rowspan="2"|20y
|[[Cumann na nGaedhael]]
|1923–33
|rowspan="2"|[[Carlow-Kilkenny (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Carlow-Kilkenny]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Fine Gael]]
|1934–44
|-
! style="background-color: {{Clann na Poblachta/meta/color}}" |
|[[Seán MacBride]]
|19y
|[[Clann na Poblachta]]
|1946–65
|[[Dublin County (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin County]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Irish Parliamentary Party/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Redmond]]
|18y
|[[Irish Parliamentary Party]]
|1900–18
|[[Waterford City (UK Parliament constituency)|Waterford City]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Brendan Corish]]
|17y
|[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
|1960–77
|[[Wexford (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Wexford]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Richard Mulcahy]]
|15y
|[[Fine Gael]]
|1944–59<ref>While Mulcahy was a member of the [[Seanad Éireann|Seanad]] in 1944, [[Tom O'Higgins]] acted as parliamentary party leader.</ref><ref>Between 1948 and 1959, [[John A. Costello]] served as parliamentary leader.</ref>
|[[Tipperary (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Tipperary]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Labour Party (Ireland)/meta/color}}" |
|[[Dick Spring]]
|15y
|[[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]]
|1982–97
|[[Kerry North (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Kerry North]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Bertie Ahern]]
|14y
|[[Fianna Fáil]]
|1994—2008
|[[Dublin Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Progressive Democrats/meta/color}}" |
|[[Mary Harney]]
|14y
|[[Progressive Democrats]]
|1993–2006, 2007—
|[[Dublin Mid West (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin Mid West]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Jack Lynch]]
|13y
|[[Fianna Fáil]]
|1966–79
|[[Cork City (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Cork City]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fianna Fáil/meta/color}}" |
|[[Charles Haughey]]
|13y
|[[Fianna Fáil]]
|1979–92
|[[Dublin North Central (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin North Central]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Sinn Féin/meta/color}}" |
|[[Margaret Buckley]]
|13y
|[[Sinn Féin]]
|1937–50
|''None''
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Liam Cosgrave]]
|12y
|[[Fine Gael]]
|1965–77
|[[Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dún Laoghaire]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[John Bruton]]
|11y
|[[Fine Gael]]
|1990–2001
|[[Meath (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Meath]]
|-
! style="background-color: {{Fine Gael/meta/color}}" |
|[[Garret FitzGerald]]
|10y
|[[Fine Gael]]
|1977–87
|[[Dublin South East (Dáil Éireann constituency)|Dublin South East]]
|}
==Facts ==
Data as-of 13 Apr 2008
===Oldest living former office-holders===
*[[Séamus Dolan]], former TD/Senator/[[Cathaoirleach]] (born 1914)
*[[Conor Cruise O'Brien]], former Minister (born 1917)
*[[Pádraig Faulkner]], former Minister (born March 1918)
*[[Richard Barry]], former TD (born 1919)
*[[Desmond Governey]], former TD/Senator (born 1920)
*[[Liam Cosgrave]], former [[Taoiseach]] (born 1920)
*[[James Dooge]], former Senator/Minister (born 1922)
*[[Seán Treacy (politician)|Seán Treacy]], former [[Ceann Comhairle]] (born 1923)
*[[Donal Creed]], former TD (born 1924)
===Oldest ever office-holders===
*[[Éamon de Valera]], retired as President aged 91 in 1973
*[[Gerald Boland]], retired as Senator aged 84 in 1969
*[[Seán MacEntee]], retired as TD aged 80 in 1969
*[[Maurice Hayes]], retired as Senator, aged 80 in 2007
*[[James Everett]], died as TD aged 78 in 1967
*[[Jackie Healy-Rae]], current TD aged 77 in 2008
*[[James Ryan (Irish politician)|James Ryan]], retired as Senator aged 77 in 1969
*[[Seán T. O'Kelly]], retired as President aged 77 in 1959
*[[Paddy Smith]], retired as TD aged 76 in 1977
===Youngest ever office-holders===
*[[William J. Murphy (Labour politician)|William J. Murphy]], TD aged 21y 1m in 1949
*[[Lorcan Allen]], TD aged 21y 6m in 1961
*[[Kathleen O'Connor]], TD aged 21y, 7m in 1954
*[[Ivan Yates]], TD aged 21y, 8m in 1981
*[[Mary Coughlan (politician)|Mary Coughlan]], TD aged 21y, 9m in 1987
*[[Myra Barry]], TD aged 22y 6d in 1979
*[[John Bruton]], TD aged 22y, 1m in 1969
*[[Patrick Smith (politician)|Paddy Smith]], TD aged 22y, 2m in 1923
*[[Síle de Valera]], TD aged 22y 6m in 1977
*[[Oliver J. Flanagan]], TD aged 23y, 1m in 1943
*[[Liam Cosgrave]], TD aged 23y, 2m in 1943
===Earliest cabinet with members still surviving===
*[[Government of the 15th Dáil#7th Government of Ireland|Costello 1954–57]] – [[Liam Cosgrave]]
*[[Government of the 18th Dáil#12th Government of Ireland|Lynch 1966–69]] – [[Pádraig Faulkner]], [[Patrick Lalor]]
*[[Government of the 19th Dáil#13th Government of Ireland|Lynch 1969–73]] – [[Pádraig Faulkner]], [[Patrick Lalor]], [[Desmond O'Malley]], [[Michael O'Kennedy]], [[Gerard Collins]], [[Bobby Molloy]]
===Earliest Dáil with members still surviving===
*[[11th Dáil]], [[1943]] – [[Liam Cosgrave]]
*[[12th Dáil]], [[1944]] – [[Liam Cosgrave]]
*[[13th Dáil]], [[1948]] – [[Liam Cosgrave]], [[William J. Murphy (Labour politician)|William J. Murphy]]
*[[14th Dáil]], [[1951]] – [[Richard Barry]], [[Liam Cosgrave]], [[Declan Costello]]
*[[15th Dáil]], [[1954]] – [[Richard Barry]], [[Liam Cosgrave]], [[Declan Costello]], [[Kathleen O'Connor]]
*[[16th Dáil]], [[1957]] – [[Richard Barry]], [[Liam Cosgrave]], [[Declan Costello]], [[Richie Ryan (politician)|Richie Ryan]], [[Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins|Brigid Hogan]], [[Ruairí Ó Brádaigh]]
*[[17th Dáil]], [[1961]] – [[Séamus Dolan]], [[Richard Barry]], [[Liam Cosgrave]], [[Desmond Governey]], [[Seán Treacy (politician)|Sean Treacy]], [[Patrick Lalor]], [[Declan Costello]], [[Tom O'Donnell]], [[Joan Burke]], [[Paddy Harte]], [[Richie Ryan (politician)|Richie Ryan]], [[Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins|Brigid Hogan]], [[Séamus Pattison]], [[John Donnellan]], [[Lorcan Allen]]
===Longest lived former office-holder===
Aged 91 or more at time of death:
# [[Gearóid O'Sullivan]] died 1994 aged 102+
# [[Tom Maguire]] died 1993 aged 101
# [[Domhnall Ua Buachalla]] died 1963 aged 97
# [[George Noble Plunkett]] died 1951 aged 97
# [[Seán MacEntee]] died 1984 aged 95
# [[Kathleen Clarke]] died in 1972 aged 94y 6m
# [[Robert Barton]], died in 1975 aged 94
# [[Patrick Finucane (Irish politician)|Patrick Finucane]] died in 1984 aged 93y 4m
# '''[[Séamus Dolan]], aged 93y 4m (as of Apr 10 2008)
# [[Peadar O'Donnell]], died in 1986 aged 93y 3m
# [[Kit Ahern]] died 2007 aged 92y 11m
# [[Éamon de Valera]] died 1975 aged 92y 10m
# [[Patrick Shanahan]] died 2000 aged 91y 11m
# [[Hugh Gibbons]] died 2007 aged 91y 4m
===Longest surviving members of the 1st Dáil===
{{main|Members of the 1st Dáil}}
*[[Seán MacEntee]] (died [[1984-01-10]])
*[[Joseph Sweeney (Irish politician)|Joseph Sweeney]] (died [[1980-11-25]])
*[[Joseph O'Doherty]] (died 1979)
*[[Éamon de Valera]] (died [[1975-08-29]])
*[[Robert Barton]] (died [[1975-08-10]])
*[[Ernest Blythe]] (died [[1975-02-23]])
*[[Patrick O'Keeffe]] (died [[1973-09-20]])
*[[Bryan Cusack]] (died [[1973-05-24]])
===Longest serving Cabinet Ministers===
*[[Seán Lemass]], [[Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ireland)|Minister for Industry & Commerce]] 19 years
*[[Éamon de Valera]], [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland)|Minister for External Affairs]] 16 years
*[[Frank Aiken]], [[Minister for Foreign Affairs (Ireland)|Minister for External Affairs]] 15 years
*[[James Ryan (Irish politician)|James Ryan]], [[Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Ireland)|Minister for Agriculture]] 15 years
*[[Seán MacEntee]], [[Minister for Finance (Ireland)|Minister for Finance]] 10 years
===People appointed to cabinet at the start of their first term as TD===<!-- This section is linked from [[Alan Dukes]] -->
*[[Alan Dukes]]
*[[Niamh Bhreathnach]]
*[[Martin O'Donoghue]]
*[[Kevin Boland]]
*[[Noel Browne]]
===Oldest person currently in office===
Politicians born before 1940:
*[[Jackie Healy-Rae]], TD (born 1931)
*[[P. J. Sheehan]], TD (born 1933)
*[[Rory O'Hanlon]], TD (born Feb 1934)
*[[Ann Ormonde]], Senator (born Jan 1935)
*[[Michael Woods (politician)|Michael Woods]], TD (born Dec 1935)
*[[Feargal Quinn]], Senator (born Nov 1936)
*[[Mary O'Rourke]], TD (born 1937)
===Youngest Person currently in office===
Politicians born after 1975:
*[[Michael McGrath]], TD (born Aug 1976)
*[[Michael McCarthy]], Senator (born Nov 1976)
*[[Thomas Byrne (Meath politician)|Thomas Byrne]], TD (born June 1977)
*[[Brian Ó Domhnaill]], Senator (born October 1977)
*[[Pearse Doherty]], Senator (born 1978)
*[[Damien English]], TD (born Feb. 1978)
*[[John Paul Phelan]], Senator (born Sep. 1978)
*[[Leo Varadkar]], TD (born January 18, 1979)
*[[Lucinda Creighton]], TD (born 1980)
===Oldest current members of Government===
* [[Batt O'Keeffe]] (born 1945)
* [[Éamon Ó Cuív]] (born 1950)
* [[Willie O'Dea]] (born 1952)
* [[Noel Dempsey]] (born 1953)
* [[Mary Harney]] (born 1953)
===Youngest current members of Government===
*[[Mary Coughlan (politician)|Mary Coughlan]] (born 1965)
*[[Eamon Ryan]] (born 1963)
*[[Micheál Martin]] (born 1960)
*[[Brian Cowen]] (born 1960)
===Longest service (in one role)===
''See also: [[List of longest-serving members of Dáil Éireann]]''
*[[Paddy Smith]] 53y 11m as TD
*[[Frank Aiken]] 49y 6m as TD
*[[Neil Blaney]] 46y 10m as TD
*[[Tom McEllistrim, Snr]] 45y 10m as TD
*[[Séamus Pattison]] 45y 8m as TD
*[[Seán MacEntee]] 45y 6m as TD
*[[James Ryan (Irish politician)|James Ryan]] 45y 2m as TD
*[[Seán Lemass]] 44y 7m as TD
*[[James Everett]] 44y 4m as TD
*[[Oliver J. Flanagan]] 43y 8m as TD
===Longest service (cumulative)===
*[[Éamon de Valera]] 55y (TD, President)
*[[Paddy Smith]] 54y (TD)
*[[Frank Aiken]] 50y (TD)
*[[James Ryan (Irish politician)|James Ryan]] 50y (TD, Senator)
*[[Neil Blaney]] 47y (TD, MEP)
*[[Gerald Boland]] 46y (TD, Senator)
===Currently in office, longest continuous service (as-of Mar 30 2008)===
*[[Enda Kenny]] (elected 1975, 32y 5m, TD)
*[[Ruairi Quinn]] (elected 1976, 31y 9m, Senator/TD)
*[[Michael D. Higgins]] (elected 1973, 31y, 2m, Senator/TD)
*[[Bertie Ahern]] (elected 1977, 30y, 10m TD)
*[[Rory O'Hanlon]] (elected 1977, 30y, 10m TD)
*[[Séamus Brennan]] (elected 1977, 30y, 10m Senator/TD)
*[[Jim O'Keeffe]] (elected 1977, 30y, 10m TD)
*[[Mary Harney]] (elected 1977, 30y, 10m Senator/TD)
*[[Michael Woods (politician)|Michael Woods]] (elected 1977, 30y, 10m TD)
===Longest service as MEP===
*[[Joe McCartin]] 25y
*[[Mary Banotti]] 20y
*[[Niall Andrews]] 20y
*[[Jim Fitzsimons]] 20y
===Husband and wife TDs in the same Dáil===
*[[Michael O'Higgins]] and [[Brigid Hogan-O'Higgins]] both served in the [[Members of the 16th Dáil|16th]], [[Members of the 17th Dáil|17th]] and [[Members of the 18th Dáil|18th]] [[Dála]].
*[[Alexis FitzGerald, Jnr]] and his wife [[Mary Flaherty (politician)|Mary Flaherty]] both served in the [[Members of the 23rd Dáil|23rd Dáil]].
*[[Olwyn Enright]] and [[Joe McHugh]] both serve in the [[Members of the 30th Dáil|30th Dáil]].
===People who served in both British Houses of Commons and Irish Houses of the Oireachtas===
*[[P. J. Brady]]
*[[Alfred Byrne]]
*[[James Cosgrave]]
*[[William Duffy]]
*[[Sir John Esmonde, 14th Baronet|John Esmonde]]
*[[Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet|Thomas Esmonde]]
*[[William Redmond]]
==See also ==
*[[List of Irish people]]
*[[Families in the Oireachtas]]
*[[Father of the Dáil]]
*[[List of Taoisigh by important facts]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Irish politicians| ]]
[[Category:Lists of politicians|Irish politicians]]
[[Category:Lists of Irish people|Politicians]]
[[sl:Seznam irskih politikov]]