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Also Known As United Ireland Party
Date September 1933 - present
Related People Leo Varadkar • Simon Harris • Enda Kenny • William Thomas Cosgrave • Mark Durkan • Garret FitzGerald • Richard James Mulcahy • Liam Cosgrave • John Bruton • Eoin O’Duffy • John A. Costello

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