* Essay on the Rising, by Garret FitzGerald

Under Garret FitzGerald, the party's more liberal or pluralist wing gained prominence.

* 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ( d. 2011 )

Shortly afterwards, Robinson resigned from the party in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement that the coalition under Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British Government of Margaret Thatcher.

Fine Gael, having gambled that former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald would run as its candidate ( even though he had insisted for two years that he would not run for office ) then approached another senior figure, Peter Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested.

It emerged during the campaign that what Lenihan had told friends and insiders in private flatly contradicted his public statements on a controversial effort in 1982 by the then opposition Fianna Fáil to pressure President Hillery into refusing a parliamentary dissolution to then Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald ; Hillery had resolutely rejected the pressure.

* 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

His successor, Patrick Hillery, was also involved in a controversy in 1982, when then Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald requested a dissolution of the Dáil Éireann.

* Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald ( Ireland )

* January 27 – The Garret FitzGerald government of the Republic of Ireland is defeated 82 – 81 on its budget ; Fitzgerald announces his resignation.

* Garret FitzGerald ( former Taoiseach of Ireland )

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has blamed Ireland's dire economic state in 2009 on a series of " calamitous " government policy errors.

The plan then allegedly lost momentum, due in part, it was claimed, to warnings made by both the then Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, and the Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald who admitted the 12, 000-strong Irish army would be unable to deal with the ensuing civil war.

He remained on as a TD until 1969 when he retired from politics, being succeeded by Garret FitzGerald as Fine Gael TD for Dublin South – East.

In that, he was supported by the then Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, whom he consulted before making the decision, and the leaders of the main opposition parties, Garret FitzGerald of Fine Gael and Frank Cluskey of the Labour Party.

In January 1982, the Fine Gael-Labour government of Garret FitzGerald lost a budget vote in Dáil Éireann.

He also met there with one of his future political rivals, Garret FitzGerald.

The campaign was enhanced and hyped up by a live debate on RTÉ between Haughey and the Fine Gael leader, Garret FitzGerald, over the major issues.

This statement was criticised by the other leaders who forged the New-Ireland Forum, John Hume, Garret FitzGerald and Dick Spring.

In November 1985 the Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed between Garret FitzGerald and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald has said that he had the potential to be one of the best Taoisigh that the country ever had, had his preoccupation with wealth and power not clouded his judgement:

Lemass remains one of the most highly regarded of Taoisigh, being described even by later Fine Gael Taoisigh Garret FitzGerald and John Bruton as the best holder of the office, and the man whose cabinet leadership style they wished to follow.

In the interview Lenihan confirmed what he had previously confirmed to other writers over eight years, that on 27 January 1982 he, along with party leader Charles Haughey and a colleague, Sylvester Barrett, had repeatedly phoned Áras an Uachtaráin, the residence of the President of Ireland, to try to put pressure on the President, Patrick Hillery, to refuse a dissolution of parliament to the Taoiseach ( prime minister ), Dr Garret FitzGerald.

* Garret FitzGerald, All in a Life ( Gill & Macmillan, 1991 ) ISBN 0-7171-1600-X

Former Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald was also a columnist.

Peter Sutherland ( left ) speaking with Garret FitzGerald ( centre ) and Will Hutton ( right ), at the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin in 2006.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Garret Rowlan, writing in The Cafe Irreal, writes that the malaise present in the work of the Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, " which recalls Kafka, has to do with the sense of another world lurking, hovering like the long shadows that dominate de Chirico's paintings, which frequently depict a landscape at twilight's uncertain hour.

In or around 2004, researchers from the Department of Gynaecology, Elizabeth Garret Anderson Hospital in London, measured the labia and other genital structures of 50 women from the age of 18 to 50, with a mean age of 35. 6.

In his Miscellanies on varied subjects he included this with accounts of four other prodigies, namely, William Crotch, Charles and Samuel Wesley, and Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.

In 2006, he resurfaced in The Press Corps, with Garret Shavlik ( The Fluid ) and Dan Peters ( Mudhoney ).

In 1987, Max More moved to Los Angeles from Oxford University in England, where he had helped to establish ( along with Michael Price, Garret Smyth and Luigi Warren ) the first European cryonics organization, known as Mizar Limited ( later Alcor UK ), to work on his Ph. D. in philosophy at the University of Southern California.

In opposition, Lenihan and Haughey attracted some international criticism when, against the advice of senior Irish-American politicians Senator Edward Kennedy and Speaker Tip O ' Neill, they campaigned against the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which the government of Garret FitzGerald had signed with the British government of Margaret Thatcher and which gave the Republic an advisory role in the governance of Northern Ireland.

He had “ a very testy relationship with three Taoisigh – Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald ” Mr Donlon recalled.

During the 1960s O ' Higgins worked closely with Garret FitzGerald and Declan Costello in re-shaping Fine Gael.

Mulligan starred with Mariette Hartley in the 1966-67 season comedy series The Hero, in which he played TV star Sam Garret, who in turn starred on a fictional series as Jed Clayton, U. S. Marshal.

Dooge worked closely with his colleague Garret FitzGerald during the late 1970s in re-organising the Fine Gael party, establishing the so-called Just Society wing of the party.

David bought a house for the family with the money Garret gave Day when he left to go overseas.

He is credited with helping develop young hitters like Garret Anderson, Jim Edmonds, and Tim Salmon.

In 2006, he resurfaced in The Press Corps, with Garret Shavlik ( The Fluid ) and Dan Peters ( Mudhoney ).

The new church was fitted out with a large Garret constructed in the ' aisled-barn ' tradition.

Very little information exists about the Garret except that it was fitted with wooden storage racks, and was described as ' the Herb Garret ' in 1821.

Rather than press on with the government's agenda the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, Garret FitzGerald, decided to dissolve the Dáil.

Election Newsroom was broadcast live on Telefís Éireann from their Donnybrook studios in Dublin, presented by John O ' Donoghue with analysis provided by John Healy ( Irish Times ), John O ' Sullivan ( The Cork Examiner ), Garret Fitzgerald and Professor Basil Chubb.