Reynolds, Albert

Reynolds, Albert

▪ prime minister of Ireland
born November 3, 1932, Rooskey, County Roscommon, Ire.

      prime minister (taoiseach) of Ireland from February 1992 to December 1994.

      Reynolds was educated at Summerhill College in County Sligo and worked for a shipping firm before succeeding at a variety of entrepreneurial ventures, including promoting dances and owning ballrooms, a pet-food factory, and newspapers. In 1974 he was elected to the Longford County Council as a member of Fianna Fáil. He entered the Dáil (lower house of Parliament) in 1977 as a member for Counties Longford and Westmeath and became minister for posts and telegraphs in the Fianna Fáil government of Charles Haughey (Haughey, Charles) (1979–81). Reynolds was subsequently minister of industry and commerce (1987–88) and finance minister (1988–91) in Haughey's third and fourth governments. He broke with Haughey in December 1991 and succeeded him as leader of Fianna Fáil and as taoiseach in February 1992.

      The Fianna Fáil– Progressive Democrats coalition that Reynolds inherited broke up in November 1992, but, after the general election later that month, he surprised many observers by forming a new coalition government with the Labour Party in January 1993. Reynolds played a significant part in bringing about a cease-fire between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Unionist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland in 1994, but he was less effective in maintaining his governing coalition. When this government foundered in November 1994, he resigned as taoiseach and as leader of Fianna Fáil, though he remained acting prime minister until a new government was formed the following month. Later that year Reynolds unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination as a candidate for the presidency of Ireland, and in March 1998 he announced his impending retirement from public life.

Michael Marsh
 

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