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Presidents of Ireland

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  • Patrick Hillery, 6th President of Ireland (1923 - 2008)
    Patrick John Hillery (Irish: Pádraig J. Ó hIrghile; 2 May 1923 – 12 April 2008) was an Irish politician and the sixth President of Ireland from 1976 until 1990. First elected at the 1951 general electi...
  • Éamon de Valera (1882 - 1975)
    Irish nationalist of Irish and Spanish descent. Joined the IRB (Fenians) in 1913. Commanded Bollands Mills during the 1916 Easter Rising. Court-mashalled and sentenced to death, but repreived. Elected ...
  • Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland (1882 - 1966)
    2nd President of Ireland (1945-1959).Seán Thomas O'Kelly (Irish: Seán Tomás Ó Ceallaigh; 25 August 1882 – 23 November 1966) was the second President of Ireland (1945–1959). He was a member of Dáil Éire...
  • Michael D. Higgins, 9th President of Ireland
    Michael Daniel Higgins (Irish: Mícheál D. Ó hUiginn; born 18 April 1941) is the ninth and current President of Ireland, in office since 11 November 2011.Higgins is a politician, poet, sociologist, auth...
  • Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland
    Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (née Bourke ; Irish: Máire Bean Mhic Róibín ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish Independent politician who served as the seventh President of Ireland, becoming the first woma...

The president of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces. The president holds office for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms.
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Presidents of Ireland

  1. Douglas Hyde (25 June 1938 - 24 June 1945)
  2. Seán T. O'Kelly (25 June 1945 - 24 June 1959)
  3. Éamon de Valera (25 June 1959 - 24 June 1973)
  4. Erskine H. Childers (25 June 1973 - 17 November 1974)
  5. Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (19 December 1974 - 22 October 1976)
  6. Patrick Hillery (3 December 1976 - 2 December 1990)
  7. Mary Robinson (3 December 1990 - 12 September 1997)
  8. Mary McAleese (11 November 1997 - 10 November 2011)
  9. Michael D. Higgins (11 November 2011 - present)