Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Joseph Brennan (1887–1963) 1943–1953 James J. McElligott (1890–1974) 1953–1960 Maurice Moynihan (1902–1999) 1960–1969 T. K. Whitaker (1916–2017) 1969–1976 Charles Henry Murray (1917–2008) 1976–1981 Tomás F. Ó Cofaigh (1921–2015) 1981–1987 Maurice F. Doyle (1932–2009) 1987–1994 Maurice O'Connell[48] (1936–2019) 1994–2002 John Hurley (1945 – ) 2002–2009 Patrick Honohan (1949 – ) 2009–2015 Philip R. Lane (1969 – ) 2015–2019 Gabriel Makhlouf (1960 – )[49] 2019–Present