IRELAND – PEOPLE
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
John Redmond
Edward Carson &
James Craig
• Leader of the Home Rule party
• Leaders of the Ulster Unionist party, founded
the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
Douglas Hyde
• Founder of the Gaelic League, first President of
Ireland
Arthur Griffith
• Founded the Sinn Féin party, Minister for Home
Affairs, member of the Treaty delegation, ProTreaty
James Larkin
• Socialist, founded the Irish Transport and General
Worker’s Union (ITGWU), worked with Connolly,
1913 Strike & Lockout
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
James Connolly
• Socialist like Larkin, involved in the 1913 Strike
& Lockout, founded the Irish Citizen Army, (ICA)
Eoin Mac Neill
• Founded the Irish Volunteers, withdrew from
the Rising
Patrick Pearse
• Teacher, member of the IRB, leader of the 1916
Rising, read the Proclaimation at the GPO,
executed
Roger Casement
Constance
Markievicz
• Travelled to Germany to get help before the
Rising, his ship, The Aud, was captured by the
British
• Involved in the Strike & Lockout, involved in the
Rising, 1st woman member of parliament and
cabinet minister, Minister for Labour
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Éamon de Valera
• Involved in the Rising, took over Sinn Féin from Griffith,
Taoiseach, later President, America, Anti-Treaty, broke IRA
links and set up Fianna Fáil, economic war
Michael Collins
• Involved in the Rising, rebuilt the IRB, The
Squad, Minster for Finance, part of the Treaty
delegation, Pro-Treaty, Beal na Bláth
Cathal Brugha
• Rebuilt the Volunteers, Minister for Defence,
Anti-Treaty
David Lloyd George
• British Prime Minister from 1917, introduced
the Black & Tans and Auxiliaries, member of
the British delegation
WT Cosgrave
• Minister for Local Government in 1st Dáil, ProTreaty, led the Free State’s 1st government with
Cumann na nGaedheal, Shannon Scheme
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Kevin O’Higgins
• Minister for Justice under Cumann na nGaedheal, set
up Garda Síochána, stopped the army mutiny,
reorganised court system, murder by IRA
Eoin O’Duffy
• Pro-Treaty, led the Army Comrades Association
(Blueshirts), joined Cosgrave and Cumann na
nGaedheal to form Fine Gael
Seán Lemass
• Fianna Fáil, Minister for Industry & Commerce,
Protectionism, Irish Shipping, Aer Lingus, rationing
during the Emergency, Taoiseach after de Valera
Donogh O’Malley
John A Costello
• Fianna Fáil, Minister for Education, free
secondary school education
• Fine Gael, leader of the 1st inter-party
government
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Noel Browne
• Inter-Party government, Minister for Health, built
hospitals, TB, resigned after Mother and Child
Scheme was defeated
Terence O’Neill
• Northern Ireland’s Prime Minister in 1960s,
met with Seán Lemass
Jack Lynch
• Leader of Fianna Fáil after Lemass, took Ireland into
the EEC in 1973
Liam Cosgrave
• Taoiseach, Fine Gael, negotiated the
Sunningdale Agreement with Northern Ireland
Charles Haughey
• Taoiseach, Fianna Fáil, signed the Maastricht
Treaty turning the European Community into
the European Union
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Garret FitzGerald
Albert Reynolds
• Taoiseach, Fine Gael, signed the 1985 Anglo-Irish
Agreement with Margaret Thatcher
• Taoiseach, helped negotiate the IRA ceasefire
in 1994
John Bruton
• Taoiseach, Fine Gael, led the Rainbow coalition
government from 1994 – 1997
Bertie Ahern
• Taoiseach, Finna Fáil, signed the ‘Good Friday’
Agreement in 1998
Ian Paisley
• Set up the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to
oppose changes in the Civil Rights campaign in
Northern Ireland