Presidents
- 1945: Leo Crawford
- 1946:
- 1947:
- 1948: William J. Whelan, Dublin Typographical Provident Society
- 1949: Owen Hynes, Building Workers' Trade Union
- 1950: Michael Colgan, Irish Bookbinders and Allied Trades Union
- 1951: John Conroy, Irish Transport and General Workers Union
- 1952: Walter H. Beirne, Irish National Union of Vintners', Grocers' and Allied Trade Assistants
- 1953: William McMullen, Irish Transport and General Workers Union
- 1954: Gerald Doyle, Operative Plasterers' Trade Society
- 1955: John O'Brien, Irish Engineering, Industrial and Electrical Trade Union
- 1956: Michael Mervyn, Electrical Trade Union Ireland
- 1957: Laurence Hudson, United House and Ships Painters' and Decorators' Trade Union of Ireland
- 1958–9: Terence Farrell, Irish Bookbinders and Allied Trades Union
Source: Donal Nevin et al., Trade Union Century, p. 439
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