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The Second Irish Provisional Government took office on 30 August 1922 until the creation of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922. After Collins' and Griffith's deaths in August 1922, W. T. Cosgrave became both Chairman of the Provisional Government and President of Dáil Éireann, and the distinction between the two posts became irrelevant.
Dáil Éireann (Irish: [ˌd̪ˠaːlʲ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]) served as the directly elected lower house of the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937. The Free State constitution described the role of the house as that of a "Chamber of Deputies". Until 1936 the Free State Oireachtas also included an upper house known as the Seanad.
Dáil Éireann (English: Assembly of Ireland), also called the Revolutionary Dáil, was the revolutionary, unicameral parliament of the Irish Republic from 1919 to 1922. [1] [2] [3] The Dáil was first formed on 21 January 1919 in Dublin by 69 Sinn Féin MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election, who had won 73 seats of the 105 seats in Ireland, with four party candidates (Arthur ...
President of the Executive Council: W. T. Cosgrave (from 6 December 1922) Vice-President of the Executive Council: Kevin O'Higgins (from 6 December 1922) Minister for Finance: Michael Collins (until 22 August 1922) W. T. Cosgrave (from 22 August 1922) Dáil: 2nd (until 8 June 1922) 3rd (from 9 September 1922)
On 9 September 1922, W. T. Cosgrave, leader of the pro-Treaty Sinn Féin TDs, was elected as President of Dáil Éireann and formed the 5th Ministry of Dáil Éireann. [ 11 ] On 6 December 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State , Cosgrave was nominated by the Dáil to the position of President of the Executive Council , and was ...
The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann [2]) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. [3]
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The Free State Seanad was elected in stages and thus considered to be in permanent session. Although there were five Seanad elections held before its abolition, the First Seanad includes the entire period from 1922 to 1936. A new Seanad Éireann was established under the 1937 Constitution, with elections following general elections to Dáil ...