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Eighth Dáil

(8 February 1933 - 14 June 1937)

7th Executive Council

Name Post held
Eamon de Valera
President, External Affairs (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
Seán T. O'Kelly
Vice President, Local Government & Public Health (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
Patrick J. Ruttledge Justice (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
Séan F. Lemass Industry & Commerce (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
Seán MacEntee Finance (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
James Ryan Agriculture (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
Frank Aiken
Defence (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37), Lands & Fisheries (from 3.6.36 to 11.11.36)
Thomas Derrig Education (from 8.2.33 to 21.7.37)
Joseph Connolly Lands & Fisheries (from 8.2.33 to 29.5.36)
Gerald Boland
Lands & Fisheries (from 11.11.36 to 21.7.37), Posts & Telegraphs (from 8.2.33 to 11.11.36)
Oscar Traynor Posts & Telegraphs (from 11.11.36 to 21.7.37)

Parliamentary Secretaries

Name Post held
Patrick J. Little
President, External Affairs (from 8.2.33 to 14.6.37) Re-Appointed 6.7.37
Seán O'Grady
Land & Fisheries (from 8.2.33 to 14.6.37), Defence (from 11.11.36 to 14.6.37) Re-Appointed 6.7.37
Dr. Francis C. Ward
Local Government & Public Health (from 8.2.33 to 14.6.37) Re-Appointed 6.7.37
Hugo V. Flinn Finance (from 8.2.33 to 14.6.37) Re-Appointed 6.7.37
Oscar Traynor Defence (from 3.6.36 to 10.11.36)
Conor Alexander Maguire Attorney General (from 8.2.33 to 2.11.36)
James Geoghegan Attorney General (from 2.11.36 to 22.12.36)
Patrick Lynch Attorney General (from 22.12.36 to 21.7.37)

Permanent Officials

Name Post held
John Power Moynihan
Secretary to the Executive Council (continuous to 28.2.37)
Maurice Moynihan Secretary to the Executive Council (from 1.3.37)
Michael McDunphy, B.L.
Assistant Secretary to the Executive Council (continuous)

Note

Re: Parliamentary Secretaries

  • Oscal Traynor was appointed to the post of Minister for Posts & Telegraphs on 11.11.36.

Re: Attorney General

  • Attorney General Conor Alexander Maguire was appointed Judge of the High Court.
  • Attorney General James Geoghegan was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court on 22.12.36.

Re: Permanent Officials

  • John Power Moynihan was appointed as Assistant Secretary, Department of Finance.
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