Government of the 1st Dáil

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Govt of the 1st Dáil	(1918)
Govt of the 2nd Dáil	(1921)
Govt of the 3rd Dáil	(1922)

The First Dáil was elected on 18 December 1918 and first met on 21 January 1919, on which date the First Ministry assumed office, and lasted for 892 days.

In 1919 Sinn Féin candidates who had been elected in the Westminster elections of 1918 refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled as a unicameral, revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann. The first meeting of Dáil Éireann occurred on 21 January 1919 in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin.

Contents 1 First Ministry 2 Second Ministry 2.1 Ministers not in cabinet 3 See also

[edit] First Ministry

The term of office for the First Ministry was from 21 January 1919 – 1 April 1919. The First Ministry was a temporary cabinet headed by Cathal Brugha, because Éamon de Valera, the leader of Sinn Féin, was in gaol at the time.

Office	Name
Príomh Aire		Cathal Brugha
Minister for Finance		Eoin MacNeill
Minister for Home Affairs		Michael Collins
Minister for Foreign Affairs		Count Plunkett
Minister for National Defence		Richard Mulcahy

[edit] Second Ministry

The term of office for the Second Ministry was from 1 April 1919 – 26 August 1921. In April 1919 de Valera became Príomh Aire and headed the Second Ministry. Countess Markiewicz became the first Irish female Cabinet Minister.

Office	Name
Príomh Aire		Éamon de Valera
Minister for Finance		Michael Collins
Minister for Home Affairs		Arthur Griffith
Minister for Foreign Affairs		Count Plunkett
Minister for Defence		Cathal Brugha
Minister for Labour		Countess Markiewicz
Minister for Industries		Eoin MacNeill
Minister for Local Government		W. T. Cosgrave
Minister for Irish		Seán T. O'Kelly
[edit] Ministers not in cabinet
Office	Name
Director of Agriculture		Robert Barton
Director of Fisheries		Seán Etchingham
Director of Propaganda		Laurence Ginnell
Director of Trade & Commerce		Ernest Blythe

[edit] See also

• Members of the 1st Dáil
• Irish general election, 1918
• United Kingdom general election, 1918
• Dáil Éireann
• Irish Government
• Politics of Ireland

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