Sean Lemass23 June 1959
Succeeds de Valera as Taoiseach and begins a government focused on economic modernization.
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Succeeds de Valera as Taoiseach and begins a government focused on economic modernization.
Succeeds Sean Lemass as Taoiseach.
Cosgrave forms a Fine Gael-Labour coalition and assumes the office of Taoiseach.
Becomes Taoiseach for the first time after succeeding Jack Lynch as Fianna Fail leader.
FitzGerald takes office leading a coalition between Fine Gael and Labour.
Succeeds Charles Haughey as Taoiseach.
Becomes Taoiseach at the head of the Rainbow Coalition.
Takes office as Taoiseach and leads a Fianna Fail-led coalition.
Succeeds Bertie Ahern as Taoiseach.
Becomes Taoiseach after the 2011 general election and forms a Fine Gael-Labour government.
Succeeds Enda Kenny as Taoiseach.
Takes office as Taoiseach under the coalition agreement between Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and the Green Party.
Takes office as Taoiseach following Leo Varadkar's resignation.
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