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List Of Irish PoliticiansFrom: List of Irish people - Alan Dukes (b.1945), Fine Gael leader (1987-1990)
- Alan Shatter (b.1951), Former Fine Gael TD
- Albert Reynolds (b.1932), Taoiseach (1992-1994)
- Arthur Griffith - President of Dil ireann (Jan-Aug 1922) & 1921 Treaty delegation leader
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - member of Irish House of Commons, military leader and British Prime Minister
- Austin Currie (b.1939), Candidate in Irish presidential election, 1990
- Austin Deasy (b.1936), Minister for Agriculture (1982-1987)
- Barry Desmond (b.1935), Minister for Social Welfare (1982-1987)
- Bertie Ahern, prime minister (the Taoiseach) and leader of Fianna Fil
- Beverley Flynn, former Fianna Fil TD (daughter of P. Flynn)
- Bob Briscoe (1894-1969), Fianna Fil TD (1927-1965)
- Bobby Molloy (b.1936), Minister for Defence (1977-1979)
- Boyle Roche - eighteenth century politician and member of the Irish House of Commons
- Brendan Corish (1918-1990), Tnaiste (1973-1977)
- Brendan Daly (b.1940), Minister for the Marine (1987-1989)
- Brendan Howlin Minister for the Environment (1994-1997)
- Brian Boru - High King of Ireland
- Brian Cowen (b.1960), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2000-present)
- Brian Lenihan - Minister, Tnaiste & defeated presidential candidate
- Caoimhghn Caolin - Sinn Fin TD
- Cathal Brugha (1874-1922), Minister for Defence in the 1st Dil
- Cearbhall Dlaigh (1911-1978), Fifth President of Ireland (1974-1976)
- Charles Haughey - politician and Taoiseach (1979-81; 1982; 1987-92)
- Charles Stewart Parnell - politician and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
- Charlie McCreevy (b.1949), Minister for Finance (2002-present)
- Conor Cruise O'Brien (b.1917), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1973-1977)
- Countess Markiewicz - politician
- Dana, Rosemary Scallon (b.1951), MEP for Connacht/Ulster (1999-present)
- Daniel O'Connell - The Liberator - leader of campaign for Catholic Emancipation
- David Andrews (b.1936), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998-2000)
- David Norris - senator, Joycean scholar and gay rights campaigner
- David Trimble - former First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
- Denis Gallagher Fianna Fil Minister
- Derek Nally (b.1936), Candidate in the Irish presidential election, 1997
- Dermot Ahern (b.1955), Minister for Communications & the Marine (2002-present)
- Dermot McMurrough - King of Leinster
- Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1947), Minister for External Affairs (1923-1927)
- Desmond O'Malley (b.1936), Leader of Progressive Democrats (1985-1993)
- Dick Spring (b.1950), Tnaiste (1982-1987 & 1992-1997)
- Domhnall Ua Buachalla Fianna Fil TD turned Governor-General (1932-36/7)
- Donagh O'Malley (1921-1968), Minister for Education
- Douglas Hyde - founder of the Gaelic League, first President of Ireland (1938-1945)
- Eamon de Valera (born in USA) Taoiseach (1932-1948; 1951-54; 1957-1959) President of Ireland (1959-1973)
- Eamon Ryan Green Party, Prospective Presidental Candidate 2004
- amon Cuv, Minister for Culture, Gaeltacht & Rural Affairs (2002-present)
- Eamonn Ceannt, signatory of 1916 Proclamation
- Edmund Burke, politician, statesman
- Edward Martyn, 1859-1923.
- Eileen Desmond (b.1932), Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
- Enda Kenny (b.1951), Leader of Fine Gael (2002-present)
- Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945), Minister for Education (1923-1925)
- Eoin O'Duffy (1892-1944), Leader of the Blueshirts
- Ernest Blythe (1889-1975), Minister for Finance (1923-1932)
- Erskine Childers (1905-1974), Fourth President of Ireland (1973-1974)
- Fiona O'Malley, TD (2002-present) {daughter of Des O'Malley}
- Frank Aiken (1896-1983), Tnaiste (1965-1969)
- Frank Cluskey (1930-1989), Irish Labour Party leader (1977-1981)
- Frank Fahey (b.1951), Minister for the Marine & Natural Resources (2000-2002)
- Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford Irish-born UK politician, cabinet minister and author.
- Frederick Boland - Diplomat and Irish delegate to UN
- Garret FitzGerald - politician and Taoiseach (1981-2, 1982-87)
- Garret Fitzgerald - the Great Earl of Kildare
- Gemma Hussey - Fine Gael Minister
- George Colley (1926-1983), Tnaiste (1977-1981)
- George Noble Plunkett Sinn Fin MP
- Gerald Bartley Fianna Fail Minister
- Gerald Boland (1885-1973), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs
- Gerard Collins (b.1938), Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Gerard Sweetman (1908-1970), Minister for Finance (1954-1957)
- Gerry Adams - politician & leader of Sinn Fin
- Gerry Fitt - politician & first leader of the SDLP
- Henry Grattan- 18th century defender of Irish parliamentary independence and opponent of the Act of Union
- Henry Joy McCracken - Ulster leader of 1798 rebellion
- Ian Paisley MP, MEP, MLA - politician and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
- Isaac Butt - Home Rule leader
- Ivan Yates (b.1959), Minister for Agriculture, Food & Forestry (1994-1997)
- Jack Lynch (1917-1999), Taoiseach (1966-1973 & 1977-1979)
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, 12th Earl of Ormonde, 1610-1688.
- James Connolly - Scottish-born socialist, founder of the Labour Party and Easter Rising participant
- James Dillon (1902-1986), Fine Gael leader (1959-1965)
- James Dooge (b.1922), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1981-1982)
- James MacNeill (1869-1938), Second Governor-General of the Irish Free State
- James Ryan (1891-1970), Minister for Finance (1961-1965)
- James Tully (b.1915), Minister for Local Government (1973-1977)
- Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - veteran Fenian leader (d. 1915)
- Jim Gibbons (1924-1997), Minister for Defence (1969-1970)
- Jim Kemmy (1936-1997), founder of the Democratic Socialist Party
- Jim Larkin (1876-1947), Irish Labour leader
- Jim McDaid (b.1949), Minister for Tourism & Sport (1997-2002)
- Jim Mitchell (1946-2002), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1982-1987)
- Jim Tunney (1923-2002), Former Fianna Fil Minister of State
- Joe Higgins Independent TD
- Joe Walsh (b.1943), Minister for Agriculture
- John A. Costello (1891-1976), Taoiseach (1948-1951 & 1954-1957)
- John Bruton (b.1947), Taoiseach (1994-1997)
- John Deasy, Fine Gael TD.
- John Hume (b.1937), Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (1979-2001)
- John O'Donoghue (b.1956), Minister for Arts, Tourism and Sport (2002-present)
- John Redmond - Home Rule leader
- John Wilson, Tnaiste (1990-1992)
- Joseph Mary Plunkett - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
- Justin Keating (b.1930), Minister for Industry & Commerce (1973-1977)
- Kathleen Clarke (1879-1972), first female Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1939)
- Kathy Sinnott (Disability rights campaigner, MEP)
- Kevin Boland (1917-2001), Minister for Local Government
- Kevin O'Higgins (1892-1927), Minister for Home Affairs (1923-1927)
- Liam Cosgrave (b.1920), Taoiseach (1973-1977)
- Liam Kavanagh (b.1935), Minister for the Environment (1983-1986)
- Liam Lawlor (b.1945), Disgraced former Fianna Fil TD
- Lorcan Ua Tuathail/St. Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of Dublin, 1128-80.
- Lord Edward FitzGerald - eighteenth century aristocratic revolutionary
- Marian Harkin - Independent TD (2002-2004/present?) MEP (2004-present)
- Mire Geoghegan-Quinn (b.1950), Minister for Justice (1993-1994)
- Mark Durkan (b1960), leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Martin Cullen, Minister for the Environment & Local Government (2002-present)
- Martin Ferris, Sinn Fin TD for Kerry North (2002-present)
- Martin McGuinness (b.1950), Sinn Fin Chief-Negotiator
- Martin O'Donoghue (b.1933), Minister for Economic Planning & Development (1977-1979)
- Mary Banotti (b.1939), Candidate in the Irish presidential election, 1997
- Mary Coughlan, Minister for Social & Family Affairs (2002-present)
- Mary Harney, deputy Prime Minister (Tnaiste) & leader of the Progressive Democrats
- Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fin MEP (2004-present)
- Mary McAleese (b.1951), Eighth President of Ireland (1997-present)
- Mary O'Rourke (b.1937), Cathaoirleach of Seanad ireann
- Mary Robinson (b.1944), Seventh President of Ireland (1990-1997)
- Mervyn Taylor (b.1931), Minister for Equality & Law Reform (1993-1997)
- Michael Collins - assassinated Chairman of the Provisional Government
- Michael D. Higgins (b.1941), Minister for Arts, Culture & the Gaeltacht (1994-1997)
- Michael Davitt (1846-1906) - founder of the Land League
- Michael Hayes (1889-1976), Ceann Comhairle (1922-1932)
- Michael Hilliard Fianna Fil TD, Minister, MEP
- Michael Lowry, Minister for Communications (1994-1996)
- Michael McDowell, Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform
- Michael J. Noonan, Fianna Fil Minister
- Michael Noonan (b.1943), Fine Gael leader (2001-2002)
- Michael O'Leary (b.1936), Irish Labour Party leader (1981-1982)
- Michael O'Kennedy (b.1936), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1977-1979)
- Michael Smith (b.1943), Minister for Defence (1997-present)
- Michael Woods (b.1935), Minister for Education & Science (200-2002)
- Michel Martin (b.1960), Minister for Health & Children (2002-present)
- Michel Morin Fianna Fail Minister
- Neil Blaney (1922-1995), Minister for Agriculture (1966-1970)
- Niamh Bhreathnach (b.1945), Minister for Education (1993-1997)
- Noel Browne - controversial Health Minister (1948-51)
- Noel Davern (b.1945), Minister for Education (1991-1992)
- Noel Dempsey (b.1953), Minister for Education & Science (2002-present)
- Nora Owen (b.1945), Minister for Justice (1994-1997)
- Oliver J. Flanagan (1920-1987), Minister for Defence (1976-1977)
- Oscar Traynor (1886-1963), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1936)
- Paddy Donegan (1923-2000), Minister for Defence (1973-1977)
- Paddy O'Toole Fine Gael Minister
- Padraic Pearse - poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
- Pdraig Flynn (b.1939), Minister for the Environment (1987-1991)
- Pat Cox - Former President of the European Parliament
- Pat Rabbitte (b.1949), Irish Labour Party leader (2002-present)
- Patrick Darcy (1598-1668), active during Irish Confederate Wars
- Patrick Hillery (b.1922), Sixth President of Ireland (1976-1990)
- Patrick Hogan (1886-1969), Ceann Comhairle (1951-1967)
- Patrick Lalor Fianna Fail Minister, MEP
- Patrick McGilligan (1889-1979), Minister for Industry & Commerce (1924-1932)
- Patrick O'Donnell Fine Gael TD, Minister
- Patrick Sarsfield - Earl of Lucan - military leader
- Paddy Smith Fianna Fail Minister
- Peter Barry (b1928), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1982-1987)
- Proinsias De Rossa (b.1940), Former leader of the Democratic Left
- Ray Burke (b.1943), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1997)
- Ray MacSharry (b.1938), Tnaiste (1981-1982)
- Richard Bruton (b.1953), DEputy-Leader of Fine Gael
- Richard Burke Fine Gael Minister and European Commissooner (1977-1980)
- Richard Martin, (1754-1834), supporter of Irish Catholic Emancipation, co-founder RSPCA.
- Richard Martin fitz Oliver, (c.1602-1648), leader during Irish Confederate Wars
- Richard Mulcahy (1886-1971), Fine Gael leader (1944-1959)
- Richie Ryan Fine Gael TD, Minister, MEP
- Robert Emmet - leader of 1803 rebellion
- Roger Casement - human rights campaigner turned revolutionary
- Rory O'Connor - High King of Ireland
- Rory O'Hanlon (b.1934), Ceann Comhairle of Dil ireann
- Ruair Brdaigh (b.1932), former leader of Sinn Fin
- Ruair Quinn (b.1946), Irish Labour Party leader (1997-2002)
- Samus Brennan (b.1948), Minister for Transport (2002-present)
- Seamus Mallon (b.1936), Former deputy-leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Samus Pattison (b.1936), Ceann Comhairle of Dil ireann (1997-2002)
- Sen Barrett (b.1944), Minister for Defence (1995-1997)
- Sen Doherty (b.1944), Minister for Justice (1982)
- Sen Flanagan Fianna Fail Minister, MEP
- Sean Lemass (1899-1971), Taoiseach (1959-1966)
- Sen Lester (1888-1959), Secretary-General of the League of Nations
- Sen Mac Diarmada - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
- Sen MacBride - IRA chief, minister (1948-51),lawyer and founder member of Amnesty International
- Sen MacEntee (1889-1984), Tnaiste (1959-1965)
- Sen MacEoin (1893-1973), Candidate in Irish presidential election, 1959.
- Sen T. O'Kelly (1882-1966), Second President of Ireland (1945-1959)
- Sle de Valera (b.1954), Minister for Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht (1997-2002)
- Sylvester Barret Fianna Fail Minister
- T.K. Whitaker - architect of post-war economic development
- Terence MacSwiney - Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)
- The O'Rahilly - 1916 leader
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee, promoter of a federal union for the Canadian provinces
- Thomas F. O'Higgins, Minister for Health (1948-1951)
- Thomas J. Clarke - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
- Thomas Johnson (1872-1963), first leader of the Irish Labour Party
- Thomas MacDonagh - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
- Tim Healy (1885-1931), First Governor-General of the Irish Free State
- Tom FitzPatrick - Fine Gael Minister, Ceann Comhairle
- Tom O'Donnell Fine Gael Minister (73-77), TD (1961-1987)
- Tom O'Higgins (1916-2003), Candidate in Irish presidential election, 1966 & Irish presidential election, 1973
- Toms MacCurtain - Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)
- Toms MacGiolla (b.1924), Former leader of The Workers Party (Ireland)
- Toms Deirg (1897-1956), Minister for Education (1932-1939)
- Tony Gregory (b.1947), Supporter of Fianna Fil government (1982)
- Trevor Sargent Green party leader
- Ulick Burke, 5th Earl of Clanricarde, d. 1657.
- Vivion de Valera (1910-1982), Fianna Fil TD
- W.T. Cosgrave (1880-1965), President of the Executive Council (1923-1932)
- Willam Joyce - Lord Haw Haw - Nazi propagandist
- William Norton (1900-1960), Tnaiste (1948-1951 & 1954-1957)
- Wolfe Tone - nationalist leader
Irish politicians, List of Irish politicians
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