Ministers for External Affairs / Foreign Affairs / Foreign Affairs and Trade since 1919

• Count George Noble Plunkett: 22 January 1919 – 26 August 1921
• Arthur Griffith: 27 August 1921 – 9 January 1922
• George Gavan Duffy: 10 January 1922 – 25 July 1922
• Arthur Griffith: 26 July 1922 – 12 August 1922
• Michael Hayes: 21 August 1922 – 9 September 1922
• Desmond Fitzgerald: 30 August 1922 – 23 June 1927
• Kevin O’Higgins: 23 June 1927 – 10 July 1927
• William T. Cosgrave: 14 July 1927 – 12 October 1927
• Patrick McGilligan: 13 October 1927 – 8 March 1932
• Éamon de Valera: 9 March 1932 – 18 February 1948
• Seán Mac Bride: 19 February 1948 – 13 June 1951
• Frank Aiken: 14 June 1951 – 2 June 1954
• Liam Cosgrave: 3 June 1954 – 20 March 1957
• Frank Aiken: 21 March 1957 – 2 July 1969
• Patrick J. Hillery: 3 July 1969 – 3 January 1973
• Brian Lenihan: 4 January 1973 – 14 March 1973
• Garret Fitzgerald: 15 March 1973 – 5 July 1977
• Michael O’Kennedy: 6 July 1977 – 11 December 1979
• Brian Lenihan: 12 December 1979 – 30 June 1981
• John Kelly: 01 July 1981 – 21 October 1981
• James Dooge: 22 October 1981 – 9 March 1982
• Gerard Collins: 10 March 1982 – 14 December 1982
• Peter Barry: 15 December 1982 – 20 January 1987
• Brian Lenihan: 10 March 1987 – 12 July 1989
• Gerard Collins: 13 July 1989 – 11 February 1992
• David Andrews: 12 February 1992 – 12 January 1993
• Dick Spring: 13 January 1993 – 17 November 1994
• Albert Reynolds: 18 November 1994 – 15 December 1994
• Dick Spring: 16 December 1994 – 26 June 1997
• Ray Burke: 27 July 1997 – 7 October 1997
• David Andrews: 08 October 1997 – 27 January 2000
• Brian Cowen: 28 January 2000 – 29 September 2004
• Dermot Ahern: 30 September 2004 – 7 May 2008
• Micheál Martin: 08 May 2008 – 19 January 2011
• Brian Cowen: 20 January 2011 – 9 March 2011
• Eamon Gilmore 10 March 2011 – 11 July 2014
• Charles Flanagan 12 July 2014 – 14 June 2017
• Simon Coveney 15 June 2017 –