Editing Liam Cosgrave (section)

==Post-Taoiseach==
[[File:Aogán O Fearghail and Former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave (20820233153).jpg|thumb|right|Cosgrave with [[Seán Kelly (politician)|Seán Kelly]] and [[Aogán Ó Fearghail]] in 2015]]
In 1981, Cosgrave retired as Dáil Deputy for Dún Laoghaire to be replaced by his son, [[Liam T. Cosgrave]]. He reduced his involvement in public life but he made occasional appearances and speeches; in October 2010 he attended the launch of ''The Reluctant Taoiseach'', a book about former Taoiseach [[John A. Costello]] written by [[David McCullagh]].<ref>[http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1014/cosgravel.html "''The Reluctant Taoiseach''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101016233818/http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1014/cosgravel.html |date=16 October 2010 }}. [[RTÉ News and Current Affairs]]. 15 October 2010.</ref> He also appeared in public for the [[Centenary of the Easter Rising]] in 2016, watching on from a car as the [[Easter Rising centenary parade|military parade marched through Dublin]]. On 8 May 2016, in a joint appearance with the grandsons of [[Éamonn Ceannt]] and [[Cathal Brugha]], he unveiled a plaque commemorating the [[1916 Rising]] at [[St. James's Hospital]], the former site of the [[South Dublin Union]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/plaque-unveiled-to-commemorate-sacrifice-of-easter-week-34696975.html|title=Plaque unveiled to commemorate sacrifice of Easter Week |newspaper=Irish Independent |access-date=30 October 2016|archive-date=30 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030203920/http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/plaque-unveiled-to-commemorate-sacrifice-of-easter-week-34696975.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

He received an annual pension payment of €133,082.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/iu/pensions/. |title=RTÉ Investigations Unit – The Cost of Political Pensions|access-date=26 March 2016|archive-date=27 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327091801/http://www.rte.ie/iu/pensions/ |url-status=live |publisher=RTE }}</ref> He lived in [[Knocklyon]].<ref name=newstalk2015-12-08a>{{cite web|url=http://www.newstalk.com/election2016/Taoiseach-Profile:-Liam-Cosgrave|title=Taoiseach Profile: The son of a Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave|publisher=Newstalk.com|first=Sue|last=Murphy|date=8 December 2015|access-date=7 October 2017|quote=The sixth Taoiseach in our series is Liam Cosgrave, the leader of Fine Gael from 1965 and the son of Ireland's first Taoiseach, William T. Cosgrave. ... Cosgrave lives in Knocklyon in Dublin.}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>