Dáil Éireann Members' Directory
Chronology of Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas
Dáil Éireann 1919 - 2017
Seanad Éireann 1922 - 2017
Mr. Brian (Snr.) Lenihan
(17/11/1930 - 01/11/1995)
Profession: Company Director, Barrister-at-Law
Party: Fianna_Fáil (Fianna_Fáil members of the 26th Dáil)
- House: 27th Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin West
- Period: 1992-1997
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 26th Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin West
- Period: 1989-1992
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 25th Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin West
- Period: 1987-1989
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 24th Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin West
- Period: 1982-1987
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 23rd Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin West
- Period: 1982-1982
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 22nd Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin West
- Period: 1981-1982
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 21st Dáil
- Constituency: Dublin County West
- Period: 1977-1981
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 13th Seanad
- Constituency: Industrial and Commercial Panel
- Period: 1973-1977
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 19th Dáil
- Constituency: Roscommon-Leitrim
- Period: 1969-1973
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
- House: 9th Seanad
- Constituency: Industrial and Commercial Panel
- Period: 1957-1961
- Party: Fianna_Fáil
Details
17th Dáil - Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Lands and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Justice [to 3 November 1964]
Minister for Justice [3 November 1964 to 21 April 1965]
18th Dáil - Minister for Justice [21 April 1965 to 26 March 1968]
Minister for Education [from 27 March 1968]
19th Dáil - Minister for Transport and Power [18 June 1969 to 3 January 1973]
Minister for External Affairs (changed to Foreign Affairs on 3 March 1971) [3 January 1973 to 14 March 1973]
21st Dáil - Minister for Fisheries [5 July 1977 to 11 December 1979]
Minister for Foreign Affairs [12 December 1979 to 30 June 1981]
23rd Dáil - Minister for Agriculture [9 March 1982 to 14 December 1982]
25th Dáil - Tánáiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs [10 March 1987 to 12 July 1989]
26th Dáil - Tánáiste and Minister for Defence [12 July 1989 to 31 October 1990 (dismissed)]
27th Dáil - Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee [19 May 1993 to 24 January 1995]
Defeated in the 1973 Dáil election
Died 1 November 1995