Garret FitzGerald
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Garret Desmond FitzGerald was an Irish Fine Gael politician, economist, and barrister who served twice as Taoiseach, serving from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987. He served as Leader of Fine Gael from 1
FitzGerald in 1984
FitzGerald in 1975
FitzGerald (l–r) with Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave, US president Gerald Ford and US secretary of state Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office on St Patrick's Day, 1976
FitzGerald (left) at the official opening of the Wang facility in Plassey Technological Park, Limerick, 1984
Charles Haughey
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Charles James Haughey was an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach three times between 1979 and 1992, when he was leader of Fianna Fáil. Over a forty-year career, Haughey was the most complex and d
Garret FitzGerald
…in the politics of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. A bright student who counted among his contemporaries in UCD his future political rival, Charles Haughey, who also knew Joan O'Farrell (1923–1999), a Liverpool-born fellow student, whom FitzGerald married in 1947. Their children were John, Mary, and Mark…
Haughey speaking on the campaign trail during a by-election in 1947
Haughey in 1967
Haughey's former estate at Kinsealy from the air in 2019. Abbeville is the white building in the centre of the picture.
George Colley, whom Haughey had known since childhood, was his opponent in the leadership election.