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Eamon Gilmore (born 24 April 1955) is an Irish Labour Party politician. In the Government of Ireland, he held the offices of Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade from March 2011 until July 2014. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from September 2007 to July 2014. He has represented the constituency of Dún Laoghaire in Dáil Éireann since 1989, firstly as a member of the Workers' Party of Ireland, later as a member of Democratic Left, then as a member of the Labour Party.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mr. Eamon Gilmore )〕 He served as a Minister of State at the Department of the Marine from 1994 until 1997 during the 24th Government of Ireland. At the 2011 general election, he led the Labour Party to its best electoral performance with a record 37 Dáil seats. The party entered government in coalition with the Fine Gael party, with Gilmore being appointed Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. As Minister for Foreign Affairs, he led Ireland's seventh Presidency of the European Council during the first half of 2013 and took on the role of chief negotiator for the Council in talks with the European Parliament on a €960 billion EU budget for the period 2014–2020.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chief Negotiator praises Gilmore's budget talks - RTÉ News )〕 Throughout 2012, he held the role of Chairperson-In-Office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Born in County Galway, Gilmore graduated from University College Galway, becoming President of the Union of Students in Ireland. Later, he entered local politics as a trade union organiser. As a Democratic Left TD, he helped to negotiate that party's merger with Labour. He was beaten by his colleague, Pat Rabbitte, in Labour's 2002 leadership election, and was appointed, instead, as the party's Environment, Housing and Local Government spokesperson. He was elected unopposed as Labour Party leader in 2007. He resigned in July 2014 as leader of the Labour Party and was succeeded by Joan Burton. ==Early life and career== Gilmore was born in Caltra, County Galway, in 1955 into a small farming family. When he was 14 months old his father died leaving his mother to run the mixed farm and raise Gilmore and his younger brother John.〔Butler, Kate, Sunday Times Home Ireland Magazine. ''Time and Place Eamon Gilmore''. 16 March 2008.〕 Gilmore's primary education was received in Caltra in a small two teacher national school where he was taught through the medium of Irish. He is a fluent Irish speaker to this day. Following his sixth-year state primary exam, he qualified for a scholarship from Galway County Council which enabled him to attend secondary school. He entered Garbally College, Ballinasloe as a boarder in 1967.〔Kelly, Ken, Connacht Tribune. ''Gilmore back on familiar turf for Garbally return''. 4 June 2010.〕 Availing of a third-level grant to fund his degree he went on to study psychology at University College Galway (UCG). He was an active member of the Drama Society in university where his contemporaries were the theatre director Garry Hynes and actor Marie Mullen who both went on to found the Druid Theatre Company. He also took part in the university debating scene mainly through the Literary and Debating Society.〔McGarry, Patsy, Cois Coirbe ''Memory Lane''. Alumni Office NUI Galway, 2008.〕 A threat from the then cash strapped Psychology Department to scrap the psychology course altogether and transfer the students to University College Dublin propelled Gilmore towards student activism.〔Irish Daily Mail. ''The Accidental TD''. 7 September 2007.〕 He was elected class representative and later, at the age of 18, was elected President of UCG Students' Union and served from July 1974 to June 1975. In 1975, towards the end of his term of office as President of the Student Union, he joined the UCG Republican Club, which was affiliated to Official Sinn Féin, subsequently "Sinn Féin the Workers' Party" and later renamed the Workers' Party. In recent years he was accused of being evasive on the subject and trying to play down that he had joined the Official Republican Movement, stating that the party "was in the process of becoming the Workers' Party at that time, I can't recall exactly the dates".〔Eamon Gilmore interviewed on the 'Marian Finucane Show' on RTÉ Radio One, October 2010.〕 Using both names, the Workers' Party's links with the proscribed paramilitary organisation the Official Irish Republican Army throughout the 1970s is well established.〔Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party, (2009).〕 From 1976 until 1978 he served as President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). Prior to establishing a career in politics, Gilmore served as a trade union organiser. He joined the Irish Transport & General Workers' Union (now SIPTU) in 1978 and, after brief spells in Dublin No. 4 (Hotels & Catering) and Dublin No. 14 (Engineering) Branches, was rapidly promoted to become Acting Secretary of the Galway Branch (1978–79), Secretary of Tralee Branch (1979–81), and of the Professional & Managerial Staffs Branch (1981–89). He was heavily involved in organising tax protests in Galway and resisting redundancies and closures in Kerry.〔Devine, Francis, ''Organising History, A Centenary in Siptu''. Gill and McMillan, 2009.〕 Gilmore has described the driving factors which has informed his working life whether as a trade union officer or public representative. "I like advocating. I love to share in the joy people get out of cracking it, getting the job or getting some right they should have. I get huge satisfaction out of working for improvements and seeing those come through". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eamon Gilmore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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