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I was serving as counsellor (political) at the Irish embassy in Washington and was directed by then Irish foreign minister Garret FitzGerald to negotiate the final text with Robert E Hunter ...
Ireland’s Foreign Minister, Dr Garret FitzGerald, said at the United Nations yesterday that the principal elements of the Sunningdale Agreement for a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland ...
Irish Foreign Minister Dr Garret FitzGerald appealed to Americans yesterday to stop donating money that financed terrorist activity in Northern Ireland. “Every penny given contributes to bombs ...
Neil Jordan Claims Ex-Irish PM Expected Payment for ‘Michael Collins’ Praise (Report) In a new memoir, the Irish filmmaker alleges Garret FitzGerald wanted to invoice Warner Bros. for an op-ed ...
At the time, I thought he must be joking. Now I believe he was deadly serious. When I asked former Fine Gael Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald if he ever played Gaelic football, he shook his head ...
A portrait of former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has been damaged after it fell at Leinster House.
Garret FitzGerald was a man ahead of his time, blazing a trail for the pluralist, more liberal and outward-looking society we have today, writes Josepha Madigan ...
Isaac Fitzgerald’s “Dirtbag, Massachusetts” is a memoir about male misbehavior and the struggle to make sense of oneself.
Garret FitzGerald ’s two periods as Taoiseach in the 1980s were overshadowed by continuing violence in the North and tragic security repercussions south of the Border.
A decade after his death, it is Garret FitzGerald’s so-called ‘Constitutional Crusade’ – in which he sought to weaken the clutch of the Catholic Church on the institutions of State and to ...
Desmond FitzGerald, Easter 1916 rebel, Free State government minister and father of future taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. At the height of the Black and ...
Garret FitzGerald spoke to RTÉ News about his political priorities, selecting a front bench, and the reshaping of the organisation of the Fine Gael party.