Government of WT Cosgrave 2
The WT Cosgrave 2 government was the first Executive Council of the Irish Free State , serving from December 6, 1922 to September 21, 1923.
With the entry into force of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on December 6, 1922, the Irish Free State was created . The Executive Council replaced the two previous governments, the Ministry of the Dáil of the Irish Republic and the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland .
The Dáil , the Irish Parliament, elected William Thomas Cosgrave as President of the Executive Council on December 6, 1922 . Cosgrave, headed the two previous governments as President of the Dáil and Chairman of the Provisional Government . The ministers were elected on the same day. On December 14th, three more ministers were appointed, but they did not belong to the government council.
When the government took office, Sinn Féin , which won 96 of the 128 seats in the parliamentary elections on June 16, 1922 , was split into supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and a civil war between supporters and opponents of the treaty had raged in the country since June 1922 . The proponents of the treaty who made up the government council decided to found their own party, Cumann na nGaedheal (CG), which was founded in April 1923.
The civil war ended in May 1923, the Dáil dissolved on August 9, 1923. In the parliamentary elections on August 27, 1923 Cumann na nGaedheal was the strongest party and continued to provide government.
composition
| minister | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Surname | Political party | Term of office | ||
| President of the Executive Board | William Thomas Cosgrave | CG | - | ||
| Vice-President of the Executive Board | Kevin O'Higgins | CG | - | ||
| Foreign minister | Desmond FitzGerald | CG | - | ||
| Minister of Education | Eoin MacNeill | CG | - | ||
| Finance minister | William Thomas Cosgrave | CG | - | ||
| Minister for Industry and Trade | Joseph McGrath | CG | - | ||
| Interior minister | Kevin O'Higgins | CG | - | ||
| Minister for Local Administration | Ernest Blythe | CG | - | ||
| Defense Minister | Richard Mulcahy | CG | - | ||
| Ministers who are not on the Executive Council | |||||
| Office | Surname | Political party | Term of office | ||
| Minister for Fisheries | Fionán Lynch | CG | - | ||
| Agriculture Minister | Patrick Hogan | CG | - | ||
| Postmaster General | James J. Walsh | CG | - | ||
| Parliamentary Secretaries | |||||
| Office | Surname | Political party | Term of office | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Executive Council | Eamonn Duggan | CG | - | ||
| Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Executive Council | Daniel McCarthy | CG | - | ||
The incumbents held office until their successors were appointed by parliament. Hence the differences in the end of terms.
Web links
- History of Government. Third Dáil. Department of the Taoiseach, November 27, 2018, accessed June 28, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dáil Éireann debate - Wednesday, 6 Dec 1922. Houses of the Oireachtas, accessed on June 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Dáil Éireann debate - Wednesday, 6 Dec 1922. Houses of the Oireachtas, accessed on June 28, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Dáil Éireann debate - Thursday, 14 Dec 1922. Houses of the Oireachtas, accessed on June 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Dáil Éireann debate - Thursday, 9 Aug 1923. Houses of the Oireachtas, accessed on June 28, 2020 (English).