Everything about The Aireacht totally explained
The
Aireacht or
Ministry was the
cabinet of the 1919–1922
Irish Republic. The Ministry was originally established by the
Dáil Constitution adopted by the
First Dáil in 1919, after it issued the
Irish Declaration of Independence. This constitution provided for a cabinet consisting of a
head of government, known as the Príomh Aire or '
President of Dáil Éireann', and four other ministers. The Irish Republic modelled itself on the
parliamentary system of government and so its cabinet was theoretically appointed by and answerable to the
Dáil. Under the constitution the President was elected by the Dáil, while the remaining ministers were nominated by the President and then ratified by the Dáil. The Dáil could dismiss both the cabinet as a whole and individual ministers by passing a resolution. Ministers could also be dismissed by the President.
A number of changes were made to the cabinet system after 1919. The number of ministers was increased and, while as established in 1919 the Irish Republic had no explicit
head of state, in 1921 the head of the Ministry was renamed as '
President of the Republic'. For a brief period the members of this president's cabinet became known as "secretaries of state" rather than ministers. When the
Fourth Ministry assumed office in 1922, with
Arthur Griffith as its head, cabinet members were once again described as ministers and Griffith, a monarchist, adopted the practice of referring to himself as the President of Dáil Éireann, although
President of the Republic remained his official title.
For much of 1922 the Aireacht governed in parallel with the
Provisional Government, an interim administration established under the
Anglo-Irish Treaty, and the membership of the two cabinets overlapped. This anomalous situation came to an end in August 1922 when the membership of both administrations was merged into the
Second Provisional Government. In December 1922, when the
Irish Free State came into being, both the Aireacht and the Provisional Government were abolished and superseded by the
Executive Council of the Irish Free State of the Free State.
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