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Liam Cosgrave
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Liam Cosgrave was an Irish politician, diplomat, and civil servant. Born in Castleknock in 1920, he was the son of W. T. Cosgrave. He was educated at King's Inns and was a member of the Fine Gael party. His political career included serving as Taoiseach, Leader of the Opposition, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Minister for Defence. He was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Cosgrave spoke English and Irish and practiced Catholicism. He authored the work *Northern Ireland* and was referenced by 499 other encyclopedia articles. He died in Dublin in 2017.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Northern Ireland
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 12
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)
· 2011 · cited 8,644x
- QuPath: Open source software for digital pathology image analysis
· 2017 · cited 8,319x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,585x
- Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY
· 2020 · cited 5,384x
- The REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) Statement
· 2015 · cited 4,762x
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Key facts
- President
- Éamon de Valera Erskine H. Childers Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh Patrick Hillery
- T naiste
- Brendan Corish
- Preceded by
- Jack Lynch
- Succeeded by
- Jack Lynch
- Taoiseach
- Seán Lemass Jack Lynch
- Deputy
- Tom O'Higgins
- 1948 1951
- Government Chief Whip
- Constituency
- Dún Laoghaire
- Born
- ( 1920-04-13 ) 13 April 1920, Castleknock , Dublin , Ireland
- Died
- 4 October 2017 (2017-10-04) (aged 97), Tallaght , Dublin, Ireland
- Resting place
- Goldenbridge Cemetery , Inchicore, Dublin, Ireland
- Party
- Fine Gael
- Spouse
- Vera Osborne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 16 April 1952</span>"}]]}'>1952 ; died 15 September 2016</span>"}]]}'>2016 )
- Children
- 3, including Liam
- Parents
- W. T. Cosgrave Louisa Flanagan
- Education
- Castleknock College Synge Street CBS
- Alma mater
- King's Inns
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Liam
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Castleknock
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Father
- W. T. Cosgrave
- Occupation
- civil servant
- Educated at
- King's Inns
- Political party
- Fine Gael
- Languages spoken
- Irish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Image
- Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave-Patricks Day 1976.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1920-04-13
- date of death
- 2017-10-04
- Commons category
- Liam Cosgrave
- name in native language
- Liam Mac Cosgair
- P10632
- Liam Cosgrave
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Encyclopedic overview
Liam Cosgrave (13 April 1920 – 4 October 2017) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977, Leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977, Leader of the Opposition from 1965 to 1973, Minister for External Affairs from 1954 to 1957, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce and Government Chief Whip from 1948 to 1951. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1943 to 1981.
Born in Castleknock, Dublin, Cosgrave was the son of W. T. Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council in the newly formed Irish Free State. After qualifying as a barrister he began a political career. He was elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1943 general election and sat in opposition alongside his father. In the first inter-party government in 1948, Cosgrave was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach John A. Costello. He became a cabinet member in 1954 when he was appointed Minister for External Affairs. The highlight of his three-year tenure was Ireland's successful entry into the United Nations. In 1965, Cosgrave was the unanimous choice of his colleagues to succeed James Dillon as leader of Fine Gael. He lost the 1969 general election to the incumbent Taoiseach Jack Lynch, but won the 1973 general election and became Taoiseach in a Fine Gael-Labour Party government.
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