He travelled in Europe and became a europhile, which was to be a defining characteristic of his political career. This earned him the nickname "Ho Chi Quinn", after the Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. In the following years, Quinn was a leading student radical in UCD demanding reform of the university's structures and the old fashioned architectural course that then prevailed. In 1965, Quinn joined the Labour Party working for Michael O'Leary's successful campaign in Dublin North-Central. This led him to study architecture at University College Dublin (UCD), in 1964 and later at the School of Ekistics in Athens. From an early age, he was interested in art and won the all-Ireland Texaco Children's Art competition. ![]() Quinn was educated at St Michael's College and Blackrock College, both in Dublin, where he was academically successful and an outstanding athlete and a member of Blackrock College's Senior Cup rugby team. ![]() The Quinns were prosperous merchants in Newry, County Down, then moved to Dublin in the 1930s, where Quinn's father built a successful business career. His family were prominent republicans in County Down in the 1920s, taking an active part in the IRA during the War of Independence and on the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War. ![]() He was a Senator from 1976 to 1977, after being nominated by the Taoiseach and again from 1981 to 1982 for the Industrial and Commercial Panel. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-East constituency from 1977 to 19 to 2016. Ruairi Quinn (born 2 April 1946) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Education and Skills from 2011 to 2014, Leader of the Labour Party from 1997 to 2002, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1989 to 1997, Minister for Finance from 1994 to 1997, Minister for Enterprise and Employment from 1993 to 1994, Minister for the Public Service from 1986 to 1987, Minister for Labour from 1983 to 1986, Minister of State for Urban Affairs and Housing from 1982 to 1983.
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