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Third Dáil

9 September 1922 - 9 August 1923

Provisional Government 30 August up to 6 December 1922 (inclusive)

Name
Post held
William T. Cosgrave
President of Dáil Éireann (from 9.9.22 to 6.12.22), Chairman of the Provisional Government (from 25.8.22 to 6.12.22), Finance (from 26.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Kevin O'Higgins
Home Affairs (from; 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Joseph McGrath
Industry & Commerce (from 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Patrick Hogan
Agriculture (from 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Eoin McNeill
Education (from 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Ernest Blythe
Local Government (from 30. 8.22 to 6.12.22)
Desmond Fitzgerald
External Affairs (from 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Richard Mulcahy
Defence (from 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
James J. Walsh
Postmaster-General (from: 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Edmund Duggan
No portfolio (from: 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)
Finian Lynch
No portfolio (from: 30.8.22 to 6.12.22)

Note

The President as such was not a member of the Provisional Government. He was the head of the Dáil or Parliament. This Office lapsed with the establishment of the 1st Executive Council under the Constitution of Saorstát Éireann 6.12.22.

Mr. Cosgrave was elected Chairman of the Provisional Government at a meeting of that body on 25 August. 1922.

The Provisional Government was suspended on 6 December 1922 by the 1st Executive Council established under the Constitution of Saorstát Éireann.

1st Executive Council - Personnel of Ministry

Members of Executive Council

Name
Post held
William T. Cosgrave
President (from 6.12.22 to 20.9.23), Finance (from 6.12.22 to 21.9.23)
Kevin O'Higgins
Vice-President (from 6.12.22 to 21.9.23), Home Affairs (from 6.12.22 to 21.9.23)
Eoin MacNeill
Education (from 6.12.22 to 3.10.23)
Joseph McGrath
Industry & Commerce (from 6.12.22 to 21.9.23)
Ernest Blythe
Local Government (from 6.12.22 to 15.10.23)
Richard Mulcahy
Defence (from 6.12.22 to 21.9.23)
Desmond Fitzgerald
External Affairs (from 6.12.22 to 21.9.23)

Note

  • Re: Minister for Education - no successor was appointed until 3.10.23.
  • Re: Local Government - Ernest Blythe held Office until appointment of successor on 4th Dáil.

1st Executive Council - Personnel of Ministry

Ministers not Members of Executive Council

Name
Post held
Patrick Hogan
Agriculture (from 14.12.22 to 15.10.23)
Finian Lynch
Fisheries (from 14.12.22 to 15.10.23)
James J. Walsh
Postmaster General (from 14.12.22 to 15.10.23)

Parliamentary Secretaries

Name
Post held
Edmund J. Duggan
Parliamentary Secretary to Executive Council (from 6.12.22 to ...) Apt. did not terminate under 1st Executive Council
Daniel McCarthy
Parliamentary Secretary to the President (from 6.12.22 to ...) Apt. did not terminate under 1st Executive Council

Attorney General

Name
Hugh Kennedy From 7.12.22 to 21/9/23 *
  • It appears that despite cessation of Mr. Cosgrave as President of the Executive Council on 20.9.23, Mr. Kennedy continued as Attorney General until re-appointed on 22.9.23.

Permanent Officials

Name
Post held
Diarmuid O'Hegarty
Secretary to the Executive Council (from 6.1.22) - Permanent
Michael McDunphy
Assistant Secretary to the Executive Council (from 30.1.22) - Permanent

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