Jack Lynch - Photo Diary

Images from the life of former Taoiseach, Jack Lynch. From childhood to the height of his political career as Taoiseach

   

Former Taoiseach, Jack Lynch

 

 

Jack Lynch near his family home near Shandon, Cork

 

 Jack Lynch as a baby with

his mother, whose Death

when he was aged 13

affected him for years

afterwards.

 

 

Acrobatics on a beach near Crosshaven - Jack Lynch (vertical) and a friend, Pat Donovan

 

 Jack and Mairin Lynch on their

Wedding day, August 10, 1946

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jack Lynch accompanying Sean Lemass and Charles haughey to London for the negotiation of the Irish Free Trade Area Agreement in 1965

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Lynch with his predecessor, Sean Lemass, and George Colley, whom he had just defeated for the Fianna Fail leadership

 

 

 

 

Lynch emerging from the Dail on his way to the President on November 10, 1966, having been voted Taoiseach

 

 

 

 

 

   

Jack Lynch with Captain Terence O'Neill, then Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, at Iveagh House in 1967 

 

 

 

Jack Lynch speaking at the signing of the Treaty of Accession to the EEC, on January 22, 1972

 

 

 Jack Lynch and

Edward Heath in

January 1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jack Lynch watching

 Liam Cosgrave

concede defeat

 on television

June '77

 

 

Jack Lynch at victory rally in Cork, June 1977

 

  

Perhaps the most evocative photograph of the Lynch era. Charlie Haughey, having been acquitted in the arms trial on Friday, October 23, 1970, challenged Lynch's leadership. Fianna Fail Ministers and TDs flocked to Dublin airport to greet the Taoiseach on his return from America on Monday, October 26. The display of solidarity ended abruptly the Haughey challenge

 

 

 

 

 

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