Irish Presidents and Prime Ministers

This list is comprised of Irish Presidents and Prime Ministers. The President is the largely ceremonial head of state, while the Prime Minister, also called the Taoiseach meaning "chief" in Irish, is the head of government. The positions were created in 1937 when Ireland became a republic.

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Name	Years	Type	Other Names
Éamon de Valera	1937-1948; 1951-1954; 1957-1959; 1959-1973	prime minister; president	(Edward)
Douglas Hyde	1938-1945	president
Seán T. O'Kelly	1945-1959	president	(Thomas)
John A. Costello	1948-1951; 1954-1957	prime minister	(Aloysius)
Seán Lemass	1959-1966	prime minister	(Francis)
Jack Lynch	1966-1973; 1977-1979	prime minister	(John, Mary)
Liam Cosgrave	1973-1977	prime minister
Erskine H. Childers	1973-1974	president	(Hamilton)
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh	1974-1976	president
Patrick Hillery	1976-1990	president
Charles Haughey	1979-1981; 1982; 1987-1992	prime minister	(James)
Garret FitzGerald	1981-1982; 1982-1987	prime minister
Mary Robinson	1990-1997	president
Albert Reynolds	1992-1994	prime minister
John Bruton	1994-1997	prime minister	(Gerard)
Bertie Ahern	1997-2008	prime minister	(Patrick, Bartholomew)
Mary McAleese	1997-2011	president
Brian Cowen	2008-2011	prime minister	(Bernard)
Enda Kenny	2011-2017	prime minister
Michael D. Higgins	2011-	president	(Daniel)
Leo Varadkar	2017-2020; 2022-2024	prime minister	(Eric)
Mícheál Martin	2020-2022	prime minister
Simon Harris	2024-	prime minister