Ireland: Presidents and Prime Ministers

Updated October 5, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

Presidents

• Timothy 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 Ministers

• William 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- )