Eamon Gilmore is a European Union diplomat, and an Irish former Labour Party politician. He serves as European Union Special Representative for Human Rights since February 2019. He is also the European Union Special Envoy for the Colombian Peace Process since 2015. He was Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2011 to 2014, Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2014, Chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2012 to 2013, Minister of State at the Department of the Marine from 1994 to 1997. He was a Teachta Dála for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 1989 to 2016.
Gilmore in 2014
Gilmore in 2002
Gilmore, Derek Nolan and Michael D. Higgins campaigning in Galway in 2008.
Banner of Gilmore on Liberty Hall, 2009.
The Labour Party is a centre-left and social-democratic political party in the Republic of Ireland. Founded on 28 May 1912 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, by James Connolly, James Larkin, and William O'Brien as the political wing of the Irish Trades Union Congress, it describes itself as a "democratic socialist party" in its constitution.
James Connolly
William O'Brien
In 1944 James Everett led a faction out of Labour and into a short-lived anti-communist splinter party until they reunited in 1950
The ascendancy of Mary Robinson to the Presidency of Ireland was heralded as a great victory for the Labour party
