Ireland: Presidents PresidentsTimothy Sullivan, Frank Fahy, and Conor Alexander Maguire, presidential commission (1937–1938) Douglas Hyde(1938–1945) Sean T. O'Kelly (1945–1959) Eamon de Valera(1959–1973) Erskine H. Childers(1973–1974) Sean Treacy, James Clement Dooge, Thomas O'Higgin, presidential commission (1974, 1976) Cearbhall O Dalaigh (1974–1976) Patrick J. Hillery (1976–1990) Mary Robinson (1990–1997) Liam Hamilton, Seamus Pattison, Liam Cosgrave, and Brian Mullooly, presidential commission (1997) Mary McAleese (1997– ) Prime Ministers William Thomas Cosgrave(1922–1932) Eamon de Valera(1932–1948, 1951–1954, 1957–1959) John A. Costello (1948–1951, 1954–1957) Sean F. Lemass (1959–1966) John Lynch(1966–1973, 1977–1979) Liam Cosgrave(1973–1977) Charles Haughey(1979–1981, 1982, 1987–1992) Garrett FitzGerald(1981–1982, 1982–1987) Albert Reynolds(1992–1994) John Bruton(1994–1997)