Garret FitzGerald (1926–2011)
Author of All in a Life
About the Author
Garret Fitzgerald entered politics in 1965 as a member of the Irish Senate, and later as a member of the Dail (Chamber of Deputies). He was Foreign Minister from 1973 and Taoiseach (Prime Minister) from June 1981 to March 1982 and again from December 1982 to March 1987. A graduate in history, show more French and Spanish, and a barrister, Dr FitzGerald also has a doctorate in economics. In 1958 he joined the Political Economy Department of University College Dublin, where he lectured, inter alia, on the European institutions. During the 1960s he was Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit of Ireland, and Economic Consultant to the Federation of Irish Industries, the Construction Industry Federation, and Unilever and Esso in Ireland. He also represented the Financial Times, Economist and BBC in Ireland, and has been a columnist on economic, social and political affairs in the Irish Times from 1954 to 1973 and from 1991 to the present. From 1959 to 1963 he was Chairman of the Irish Council of the European Movement, of which he was later President. During his periods in office he attended some twenty European Council meetings, and was at different times President of the Council of Ministers and of the European Council of Heads of Government. He is now a lecturer, writer, consultant and company director, as well as being an active Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, which comprises four of the State's seven universities show less
Image credit: Irish politician, Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael Garret FitzGerald in 1984
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Free trade with Britain 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- FitzGerald, Garret
- Birthdate
- 1926-02-09
- Date of death
- 2011-05-19
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University College Dublin
- Occupations
- economist
politician
Taoiseach of Ireland (1981-1982|Fine Gael)
Taoiseach of Ireland (1982-1987|Fine Gael)
Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973-1977|Fine Gael)
Leader of Fine Gael of Ireland (1977-1987) (show all 7)
Member of the Irish Dáil Éireann (1969-1992|Fine Gael) - Organizations
- Fine Gael
Dáil Éireann - Relationships
- Fitzgerald, Desmond (father)
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Birthplace
- Dublin, Ireland
- Places of residence
- Dublin, Ireland
- Place of death
- Dublin, Ireland
- Associated Place (for map)
- Dublin, Ireland
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For a good chunk of my teenage years Garret FitzGerald was a man who argued statistics on the TV. Teased for his inability to coordinate and that he had mismatched shoes, he resembled more an absent-minded professor than the country's leader. This is his recollections of his life and what made him the person he was. I took it out of the library when he died and read it in snippets over the last while, he was an interesting man, a believer in facts who was a marked contrast to the man who was show more in many ways his dark shadow, Charles Haughey.
Garret Fitzgerald was a man who faced a lot of difficult issues, who believed in the power of statistics and who was often seen pushing his wife in her wheelchair so she could share in events.
Still I did want to do a bit of research about some of the unsaid issues, it's probably too soon to look harder at some of it but I do wonder what he was like to work with behind the bumbling professor exterior. show less
Garret Fitzgerald was a man who faced a lot of difficult issues, who believed in the power of statistics and who was often seen pushing his wife in her wheelchair so she could share in events.
Still I did want to do a bit of research about some of the unsaid issues, it's probably too soon to look harder at some of it but I do wonder what he was like to work with behind the bumbling professor exterior. show less
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