Desmond FitzGerald (politician)

Desmond FitzGerald (Irish Deasún Mac Gearailt, * February 13, 1888, † April 9, 1947 ) was an Irish politician and long-time minister.

Biography

FitzGerald, who completed a degree in philosophy, he began his political career in 1919 with the election of the Members of the First Dáil. There he initially represented the interests of Sinn Féin in Dublin constituency ( Pembroke) and then from 1922 to 1932 the Cumann na nGaedheal in the constituency Dublin County and from 1932 to 1937 in the constituency Carlow - Kilkenny. After the Cumann na nGaedheal 1933 was merged with Fine Gael, he sat for this party in parliament.

After the arrest of Laurence Ginnell he was on June 17, 1919 his successor as Deputy Director for propaganda of the First Dáil and held that office until February 11, 1921. From August 1921 to September 1922 he was then, except for a two-day break Propaganda Minister in the Dáil governments of Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith and William Thomas Cosgrave.

Cosgrave appointed him on September 9, 1922 Foreign Minister in the provisional government, and he took office on in the run of Cosgrave Executive Council from September 1923 to June 1927. During a cabinet reshuffle, he was then in June 1927 as the successor of Peter Hughes of Defense the Executive Board and held that office until the assumption of office of de Valera on 9 March 1932.

In the elections to Dáil Éireann in 1937, although he lost his House seat, but ( Seanad Éireann ) was elected the following year as a member of the Senate, in which he represented until 1943 the group for the management. In 1943, he opted not to run again for the Senate.