Área de identidad
Tipo de entidad
Persona
Forma autorizada del nombre
FitzGerald, Garret
Forma(s) paralela(s) de nombre
Forma(s) normalizada del nombre, de acuerdo a otras reglas
Otra(s) forma(s) de nombre
- FitzGerald, Garret Desmond
- Fitzgerald, Garrett
Identificadores para instituciones
Área de descripción
Fechas de existencia
1926–2011
Historia
Dr Garrett FitzGerald, was born in Dublin on 9 February 1926. In 1950 he assumed responsibility for economic planning and transport scheduling within Aer Lingus. Between 1959 and 1973 FitzGerald lectured in economics at UCD, and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1969, with his dissertation being published by the IPA as a book, Planning in Ireland. FitzGerald stood for the Seanad as a Fine Gael candidate on the industrial and commercial panel. In 1969 he became TD for Dublin South-East and opposition front bench spokesman on education. In 1971 FitzGerald became Fine Gael spokesman on finance. He took a leading role in the campaign for Irish membership of the EEC, touring the country with the Labour Party spokesman, Justin Keating. After the 1973 general election a Fine Gael–Labour coalition government would be formed, Cosgrave appointed FitzGerald to the Foreign Affairs. After Cosgrave resigned following Fine Gael’s electoral defeat in the June 1977 general election, FitzGerald was elected as leader on 1 July 1977.
At the June 1981 general election Fine Gael gained sixty-five seats (compared with forty-three in 1977) and formed a minority coalition government with Labour (fifteen seats), and FitzGerald was elected Taoiseach, on 30 June 1981. At the subsequent November 1982 general election Fianna Fáil was reduced to seventy-five seats; Fine Gael secured seventy and Labour under Dick Spring sixteen, with the highest Fine Gael vote ever recorded (39.2 per cent). Labour reversed a recent conference decision not to enter coalition, and a second FitzGerald government was formed, but the need to placate Labour contributed to its limitations. Perhaps FitzGerald’s largest contribution to the subsequent Irish economic recovery came on the European level, with his significant role in insisting that the renewal of the European integration process under Commission President Jacques Delors, embodied in the 1987 Single European Act and paving the way for subsequent integration measures, must be accompanied by increased development funds to promote economic cohesion by developing the economies of the poorer member states. FitzGerald also negotiated favourable quotas for Irish agricultural produce despite pressure for European subsidy reductions.
The coalition government fell in January 1987, having lost its majority through the defections of individual Fine Gael and Labour TDs, when Labour ministers refused to support proposed budgetary cuts which the Dáil was unlikely to ratify. FitzGerald resigned as Fine Gael leader shortly after the election in March 1987 of a minority Fianna Fáil government led by Haughey, having stated in the Dáil that Fine Gael would support government measures necessary for economic recovery. FitzGerald left the Dáil at the 1992 election, supporting himself by journalism and consultancy work. Garret FitzGerald died of pneumonia on 19 May 2011 in the Mater Hospital, Dublin after a short illness. His research on primary education in early nineteenth-century Ireland was published posthumously in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.
Source: Patrick Maume, Dictionary of Irish Biography (2021), https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.010020.v1
Lugares
Estatuto jurídico
Funciones, ocupaciones y actividades
26th Dáil: 1989 - 1992
25th Dáil: 1987 - 1989
24th Dáil: 1982 - 1987
Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism (1983 - 1983)
Taoiseach (1982 - 1987)
23rd Dáil: 1982 - 1982
22nd Dáil: 1981 - 1982
Taoiseach (1981 - 1982)
21st Dáil: 1977 - 1981
20th Dáil: 1973 - 1977
Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973 - 1977)
19th Dáil: 1969 - 1973
11th Seanad
1965 - 1969
Industrial and Commercial Panel
Mandatos/fuentes de autoridad
Estructura/genealogía interna
Contexto general
Área de relaciones
Área de puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Occupations
Área de control
Identificador de registro de autoridad
Maintained by
Identificador de la institución
IE DCUA
Reglas y/o convenciones usadas
ISAAR (CPF)
Estado de elaboración
Nivel de detalle
Fechas de creación, revisión o eliminación
2022-04-29
Idioma(s)
- inglés
Escritura(s)
Fuentes
Dictionary of Irish Biography (2021), https://doi.org/10.3318/dib.010020.v1