Government of the 3rd Dáil

Template:Short description Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Use dmy dates The government of the 3rd Dáil was first both concurrently the 2nd provisional government (30 August – 6 December 1922) and the 5th ministry of Dáil Éireann (9 September – 6 December 1922), formed after the 1922 general election held on 16 June 1922, and then the 1st executive council of the Irish Free State (6 December 1922 – 19 September 1923), formed after the establishment of the Irish Free State. They were led by W. T. Cosgrave, who had become the leader of the Pro-Treaty wing of Sinn Féin and on 27 April 1923 became the first leader of the Cumann na nGaedheal.

The 2nd provisional government and the 5th ministry lasted for overlapping concurrent periods of Template:Age in years and days and Template:Age in years and days respectively. The 1st executive council lasted for Template:Age in years and days.

Template:Anchor2nd provisional government and 5th ministry

Template:AnchorTemplate:Anchor Template:Infobox government cabinet The 2nd provisional government (30 August 1922 – 6 December 1922) was formed by W. T. Cosgrave, who had been appointed as Chairman of the Provisional Government on 25 August 1922, after the death of Michael Collins on 22 August, who had led the 1st provisional government from 16 January 1922.<ref name=gov3rd>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Arthur Griffith, the President of the Dáil who had led the 4th Ministry from 10 January 1922, had died on 12 August. The members of the 3rd Dáil first met on 9 September 1922. W. T. Cosgrave was proposed as President of the Dáil by Richard Mulcahy and seconded by Eoin MacNeill. This motion was carried and Cosgrave and formed the 5th Ministry (9 September 1922 – 6 December 1922), composed of Pro-Treaty members of Sinn Féin and identical in composition to the 2nd provisional government. With these appointments, the dual cabinets which had existed from January 1922 came to an end, with Cosgrave serving as both Chairman of the Provisional Government and President of Dáil Éireann. Both cabinets were abolished when the new Constitution of the Irish Free State came into force on 6 December 1922.

Office	Name
Chairman of the Provisional Government	rowspan=3 style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 1px" |	W. T. Cosgrave
President of Dáil Éireann<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Minister for Finance<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Minister for Foreign Affairs<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Desmond FitzGerald
Minister for Home Affairs<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Kevin O'Higgins
Minister for Local Government<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ernest Blythe
Minister for Agriculture<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Patrick Hogan
Minister for Industry and Commerce<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Joseph McGrath
Minister for Education<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Eoin MacNeill
Minister for Defence<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Richard Mulcahy
Postmaster-General<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	J. J. Walsh
Minister without portfolio<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Fionán Lynch
	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Eamonn Duggan

1st executive council of the Irish Free State

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Cumann na nGaedheal government 1922–1923

The 1st Executive Council of the Irish Free State (6 December 1922 – 19 September 1923) was formed by Pro-Treaty faction of Sinn Féin, which became Cumann na nGaedheal in April 1923. On 6 December 1922, the Constitution of the Irish Free State came into force. William T. Cosgrave was proposed as President of the Executive Council by Peter Hughes and seconded by Francis McGuinness, and this motion was approved by the Dáil.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The President nominated the members of the Executive Council on 6 December.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Office	Name
President of the Executive Council	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 1px" |	W. T. Cosgrave
Minister for Finance
Vice-President of the Executive Council	rowspan=2 style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Kevin O'Higgins
Minister for Home Affairs
Minister for Defence	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Richard Mulcahy
Minister for Education	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Eoin MacNeill
Minister for External Affairs	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Desmond FitzGerald
Minister for Industry and Commerce	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Joseph McGrath
Minister for Local Government	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ernest Blythe

Ministers not members of the Executive Council

The following Ministers were proposed by a committee of the Dáil on 14 December 1922.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Office	Name
Minister for Agriculture and Lands	style="background-color: Template:Party color; width: 1px" |	Patrick Hogan
Minister for Fisheries	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Fionán Lynch
Postmaster-General	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	J. J. Walsh

Parliamentary secretaries

The Executive Council appointed the following Parliamentary secretaries.<ref name=gov3rd /> These were newly created offices.

Name		Office
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Daniel McCarthy	Government Chief Whip
style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Eamonn Duggan	Parliamentary secretary to the Executive Council

See also

• Dáil Éireann
• Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic)
• Dáil Éireann (Irish Free State)
• Government of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland