Lemass, Sean F

Lemass, Sean F

▪ prime minister of Ireland
born July 15, 1899, Dublin
died May 11, 1971, Dublin

      Irish patriot, politician, and prime minister from 1959 to 1966.

      As early as the age of 16, Lemass became a freedom fighter in the streets of Dublin, engaging in the Easter Rising (April 1916) and other hostilities and landing in jail again and again; his brother Noel died as a revolutionary. After establishment of the Irish Free State, he joined Eamon De Valera (de Valera, Eamon) and the other holdouts, becoming a member of the headquarters staff of the Irish Republican Army in 1922 and sharing in the founding of the new party, Fianna Fáil, in 1926. After De Valera rose to the premiership in 1932, Lemass held portfolios in all his cabinets for 21 of the next 27 years, notably as minister of industry and commerce and then as deputy prime minister.

      When De Valera became president in 1959, Lemass inherited the office of prime minister. Under him the nation took a more outward-looking approach, and he especially pressed for Ireland's entry into the European Economic Community (Common Market). Ill health, however, forced him to relinquish the leadership of his party in 1966 and withdraw from politics in 1969. Ireland's membership in the Common Market was not secured until 1973, after his death.

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