Ireland: Presidents

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
PresidentsTimothy Sullivan, Frank Fahy, and Conor Alexander Maguire, presidential commission (1937–1938)
 Douglas Hyde (1938–1945)
 Sean T. O'Kelly (1945–1959)
 Eamon de Valera (1959–1973)
 Erskine H. Childers (1973–1974)
 Sean Treacy, James Clement Dooge, Thomas O'Higgin, presidential commission (1974, 1976)
 Cearbhall O Dalaigh (1974–1976)
 Patrick J. Hillery (1976–1990)
 Mary Robinson (1990–1997)
 Liam Hamilton, Seamus Pattison, Liam Cosgrave, and Brian Mullooly, presidential commission (1997)
 Mary McAleese (1997–2011)
 Michael D. Higgins (2011–)
Prime MinistersWilliam Thomas Cosgrave (1922–1932)
 Eamon de Valera (1932–1948, 1951–1954, 1957–1959)
 John A. Costello (1948–1951, 1954–1957)
 Sean F. Lemass (1959–1966)
 John Lynch (1966–1973, 1977–1979)
 Liam Cosgrave (1973–1977)
 Charles Haughey (1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992)
 Garrett FitzGerald (1981–1982, 1982–1987)
 Albert Reynolds (1992–1994)
 John Bruton (1994–1997)
 Bertie Ahern (1997–2008)
 Brian Cowen (2008–2011)
 Enda Kenny (2011–2016)
 Leo Varadkar (2017–2020)
 Micheál Martin (2020–2022)
 Leo Varadkar (2023–)


 
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