Life
1926- ; son of Desmond Fitzgerald; ed. UCD; grad. in French and Spanish,
BA; economics PhD.; lect. in pol. econ., UCD 1958–73; severally
managing director of Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit
of Ireland, and Economic Consultant to the Federation of Irish Industries,
the Construction Industry Federation, and Unilever and Esso in Ireland;
Chairman, and later President, Irish Council of the European Movement,
1959-63; the first Irish foreign minister (Foreign Affairs); Fine Gael
PM, 1969; Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1973–77; Party Leader; Taoiseach
in Coalition with Labour, 1981-82, 1982-87; established New Ireland Forum,
1983; crucially instrumental in political accommodation with Britain at
time of Northern Ireland crisis and driving-force behind the Anglo-Irish
Agreement, Nov. 1985; gave up party leadership asa a consequence of election losses; afterwards
economic consultant and long-serving The Irish Times columnist,
1954 to 1973 and 1991- ; variously President of the Council of Ministers
and of the European Council of Heads of Government; author of Towards
a New Ireland (1972), an autobiography (1991) and Reflections on
the Irish State (2003); appt. Chancellor of National University of
Ireland (NUI); a son is a principal of the reality agents Sherry and Fitzgerald. FDA
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Works
State-sponsored Bodies: Introduction to Public Administration Series
(Dublin: IPA 1961); Towards a New Ireland (London: C. Knight
1972), viii, 190pp., and Do. [rep.] (Dublin: Torc Books 1973), viii, 190pp.;
Irish Identities [Richard Dimbleby Lectures; May 1982] (London:
BBC 1982); Ireland and Social Reform To-day [Act IMP 8]
(Dublin: Irish Messenger Publications [1986]), 30pp.; What Makes Politics
Tick?: Interests, Ideals or Emotions? [Queen’s Politics Occasional
Paper, No. 3; John Whyte Memorial Lect.] (Belfast: QUB 1990), 28pp.; Politics,
Religion and Values [Glasgow Aquinas Lecture Ser.] (Manchester: Blackfriars
1997), 19pp.; Pierre Joannon, John Hume, avec un témoignage de
Garret FitzGerald [Politiques & chrétiens] (Paris: Beauchesne 1999), 378pp.;
All in a Life: An Autobiography (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1991),
674pp, ill. [pls. & ports.]; Reflections on the Irish State
(Dublin: IAP 2003), xxvi, 202pp. Also Towards a New Ireland [Extracts
from interview with Gerald Barry of “This Week” RTÉ1
[Sunday 27 Sept. 1981] (RTE 1981).
Criticism
James Dooge, ed., Ireland in the Contemporary World: Essays in Honour
of Garret FitzGerald (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1986).
James P. Mackey & Enda McDonagh, Religion and Politics in Ireland at the Turn of the Millenium: Essays in Honour of Garret Fitzgerald on [...] His Seventy-fifth Birthday (Dublin: Columba Press 2003), 304pp.
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)