Costello, John A

Costello, John A

▪ prime minister of Ireland
born June 20, 1891, Dublin
died Jan. 5, 1976, Dublin

      prime minister (taoiseach) of Ireland from 1948 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1957.

      A prosperous lawyer who had served as attorney general, he owed his selection as prime minister to a coalition of several parties (including his own Fine Gael) and prominent independent politicians united in opposition to Eamon De Valera's (de Valera, Eamon) Fianna Fáil (Republican Party). During his first term as prime minister, he introduced into the Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly) the Republic of Ireland Act (1948), by which Ireland withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations. His second government was marked by a sharp increase in acts of terrorism by the unlawful Irish Republican Army (IRA). He resigned as opposition leader in 1959, when De Valera became president and Sean Lemass prime minister.

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