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  Governor-General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Governor-General (or Governor General) is a term used both historically and currently to designate the appointed representative of a head of state or their government for a particular territory, historically in a colonial context, but no longer necessarily in that form.
The Governor General became the direct representative of the country's Sovereign only, and relations with the United Kingdom were placed in the hands of a British high commissioner in each country.
From 1905 to 1935 the Philippines was administered by a Governor General appointed by the United States.
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 Irish Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) was (1922–1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
The Irish Free State made several steps on increasing its independence including coin and banknote issue from late 1928, this is a farthing coin from 1936 showing the obverse.
A tiny minority of Irish people, usually attached to small parties like Sinn Féin and Republican Sinn Féin, denied the right of the twenty-six county state to use the name 'republic', referring to the twenty-six county state as the 'Free State', its citizens 'Free Staters' and its government the "Free State" or "Dublin" Government.
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 Governor-General of the Irish Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Governor-General (Irish: Seanascal) was the representative of the King in the 1922-1937 Irish Free State.
Under the Free State constitution the Governor-General was bound to act in accordance with the "law, practice and constitutional usage" relevant to the Governor-General of Canada.
While Irish political leaders favoured the creation of a republic the treaty required, instead, that the new state would be a Dominion of the British Commonwealth under a form of constitutional monarchy.
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 Irish Free State - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The structures of the new Free State were laid out in the Treaty and in the Constitution of the Irish Free State Act.
A tiny minority of Irish people, usually attached to small parties like Sinn Féin and Republican Sinn Féin, denied the right of the twenty-six county state to use the name 'republic', continually referring to the twenty-six county state as the 'Free State', its citizens 'Free Staters' and its government the "Free State" or "Dublin" Government.
Gaelic Prose In The Irish Free State 1922-1939
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 Encyclopedia: Irish Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The President of the Executive Council (Irish: Uachtaráin na hArd-Chomhairle) was the head of government or prime minister of the 1922-1937 Irish Free State, and the leader of the Executive Council (cabinet).
The Constitution of the Irish Free State was the constitution of the southern Irish state established in December 1922.
The Irish Civil War (June 1922–April 1923) was a conflict between supporters and opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 6, 1921, which established the Irish Free State, precursor of todays Republic of Ireland.
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 Irish Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Irish Free State (Irish language:, Saorstát Éireann) was (1922-1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
In 1918 the majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won (mainly without contests) by Sinn Féin, a previously monarchist party that under Eamon de Valera's leadership from 1917 had campaigned for an Irish republic.
However no international state recognised the validity of the Irish Republic, nor was it accepted by the overwhelming mass of Irish people.
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 Irish Free State Constitution: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Irish Free State Constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Irish Free State Constitution (full name: Irish Free State (Constitution) Act, 1922 but also known simply as the 1922 Constitution) was the Constitution of the Irish Free State created in December 1922.
The Constitution was shaped by the requirements of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed between representatives of the British Government and the Irish Republic in December 1922.
In 1936, then President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State Eamon de Valera had a replacement constitution drafted by John Hearne, called Bunreacht na hÉireann, for which he gave formal notice to King Edward VIII of Ireland in July 1936.
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 Governor-General of the Irish Free State
Under the 1922 Constitution drafted by Michael Collins, the Governor-General of the Irish Free State was the Representative of the Crown in the Irish Free State.
Note: The Governor-General was NOT a head of state, merely the representative of one, but is described here as RESIDENT head of state because he fulfilled the functions of head of state in the Irish context.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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 Irish Free State: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Irish Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Irish Free State (Irish Saorstat Éireann) was (1922-1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic's representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
However no international state recognised the validity of the Irish Republic, not was it accepted by the overwhelming mass of Irish people.
The unprecedented abandonment of the use of the British Greal Seal of the Realm[?] and its replacement by the Great Seal of the Irish Free State[?], which the King awarded to his Irish Kingdom as King of Ireland, again in 1931.
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 State papers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term State papers is used in the British and Irish contexts to refer exclusively to government archives and records.
Such papers used to be kept separate from non-governmental papers, with state papers kept in the State Paper Office and general public records kept in the Public Records Office.
The Irish State Paper Office was located in Dublin Castle, while the Irish Public Records Office was located at the Four Courts.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Governor-General of the Irish Free State
The Governor-General (Irish: Seanascal) was the representative of the Crown in the 1922-1937 Irish Free State.
Although it was the King who was head of state, because the monarch resided in the United Kingdom most of his functions were carried out by the Governor-General on his behalf.
When the Irish Free State seceeded from the United Kingdom in 1922 it was under the terms of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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 Ireland - Wikipedia
This was brought largely to an end, however, with the invasion of the Vikings in the 10th century and the Normans in the 12th century.
English rule was largely limited to the area around Dublin known as the Pale initially, but this began to expand in the 16th century with the final collapse of the Gaelic social and political superstructure at the end of the 17th century.
The Irish rugby team, for instance, includes players from the north and the south, and the Irish Rugby Football Union[?] governs the sport on both sides of the divide.
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 Timothy Michael Healy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Timothy Michael Healy, KC (17 May, 1855–26 March, 1931) was one of the most brilliant and most controversial of Irish politicians, with a career that spanned the period from Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1880s to the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
Initially the Irish government under W. Cosgrave wished for Healy to reside in a new small residence, but when facing death threats from the IRA, as a temporary measure he was moved into the Viceregal Lodge, the former 'out of season' residence of the Lord Lieutenant, the former representative of the Crown before 1922.
Though Healy seemed to believe that he had been awarded the governor-generalship for life, the Executive Council of the Irish Free State decided in 1927 that the term of office of governors-general would be five years.
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 Irish Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Irish Free State sent a team to the British Empire Games in 1934 in London.
(The Irish Seal consisted of a picture of 'King George V of Ireland' enthroned on one side, with the Irish state Harp and the words Saorstát Éireann (Irish for Irish Free State) on the reverse.
Having read the files, he told his son, Vivion, "they were magnificent, son." (All that remained was British control of a number of ports in the Irish Free State, called the Treaty Ports.
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 Irish Free State Information - TextSheet.com
The Irish Free State (in Irish, Saorstát Éireann) was (1922-1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
Executive authority was vested in the King, and exercised by a ministry called the 'Executive Council', presided over by a prime minister called the President of the Executive Council.
denied the right of the twenty-six country state to use the name 'republic', continually referring to the twenty-six county state as the 'Free State', its citizens 'Free Staters' and its government the "Free State" or "Dublin" Government.
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 Official Seal of the President of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Official Seal of the President of Ireland (Irish: Séala Oifigeamhail Uachtarán na hÉireann) was presented to the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde and every subsequent president, to be affixed to every "...order, commission, warrant, or other instrument...
The official seal has the word "ÉIRE" in Gaelic script, and uses the modified harp that is used as the official state symbol on coins and documents of Ireland.
The official seal is similar to the design of the Great Seal of the Irish Free State which was itself under the custody of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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 Constitution of the Irish Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It was enacted with the adoption of the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann) Act, 1922, to which it was appended as a schedule, and was also known simply as the 1922 Constitution.
The constitution was drafted by a committee under the nominal chairmanship of Michael Collins that also included James McNeill, who became the second Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
Its system of government was modelled on the Westminster System of parliamentary democracy prevalent among Commonwealth of Nations states existing in the 1920s.
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 Dáil Éireann - Volume 1 - 19 October, 1922 - GOVERNOR - GENERAL OF THE IRISH FREE STATE—QUESTION OF TITLE.
The Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State— those are all different names.
There is an opportunity here to take power for the Irish Free State which is already in the possession of the Dominions with which we are to be upon a parity.
With regard to the putting in a proviso that the Free State shall provide the Governor-General with a suitable residence and establishment, that is only doing what some Deputies have been talking of, that is putting into the Constitution the practice of the Dominions.
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 James McNeill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He served as a member of the committee under Michael Collins, the chairman of the Provisional Government, that drafted the Irish Free State Constitution.
He was subsequently appointed as Irish High Commissioner (ambassador) to the Court of St. James's (the United Kingdom.) When the first governor-general, Timothy Michael Healy retired in December 1927, James McNeill was proposed as his replacement by the Irish government of W.T. Cosgrave and duly appointed by King George V as King of Ireland.
In office, McNeill clashed with the King's Private Secretary when he insisted on following the constitutional advice of his Irish ministers, rather than the Palace, in procedures relating to the receipt of Letters of Credence accediting ambassadors to the King in Ireland.
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 The Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) Act, 1922 and Public General Acts passed by ...
Each University in the Irish Free State which was in existence at the date of the coming into operation of this Constitution, shall be entitled to elect three representatives to Dáil Eireann upon a franchise and in a manner to be prescribed by law.
The Executive Authority of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) is hereby declared to be vested in the King, and shall be exercisable, in accordance with the law, practice and constitutional usage governing the exercise of the Executive Authority in the case of the Dominion of Canada, by the Representative of the Crown.
All revenues of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) from whatever source arising, shall, subject to such exception as may be provided by law, form one fund, and shall be appropriated for the purposes of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) in the manner and subject to the charges and liabilities imposed by law.
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 Ireland - becoming a free state
Irish liberation from British rule was achieved as the result of a struggle extending over several centuries and marked by numerous rebellions.
The boundary between the Free State and Northern Ireland was established in December 1925.
The new constitution, which abolished the Irish Free State and established Éire as a 'Sovereign independent democratic state,' was approved by the voters in a plebiscite conducted simultaneously with the election.
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 Encyclopedia article on Governor-General of the Irish Free State [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Governor-General of the Irish Free State (Irish: Seanascal Shaorstáit Eireann) was the representative of the Crown in the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1936.
The Irish Government however let it be known that it wished Timothy Michael Healy, KC, former Parnellite MP to be appointed, a choice enthusiastically backed by King George V and which the British Government agreed to.
James McNeill, a former member of Collins's constitution committee, and a former chairman of Dublin County Council, was selected for the post and was sworn-in as the Irish Free State's second Governor-General in 1928.
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 List of state leaders in 1923 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Governor-General - Timothy Michael Healy, Governor-General of the Irish Free State (1922-1928)
Prime Minister - W.T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (1922-1932)
Governor - William L. Allardyce, Governor of Newfoundland (1922-1928)
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 The Ultimate Entrenched clause - American History Information Guide and Reference
The Irish Free State Constitution was required in parts to be consistent with the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty, including an oath of allegiance and a representative of the Crown.
The checks to protect this were removed by, for example, the Irish taking control of advice to the Governor-General, and when the Senate proved obstructive its abolition.
The other clause, still in effect, states that "no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate".
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 Domhnall Ua Buachalla   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An Irish language activist and member of the Irish Volunteers[?] Ua Buachalla from Maynooth[?], County Kildare[?] was imprisoned after the Easter Rising.
De Valera sought to use the abdication crisis surrounding King VIII of the United Kingdom">Edward VIII to amend the Irish Free State Constitution to abolish the Crown and governor-general.
In practice, between 1933 and December 1936[?] the state had paid Ua Buachalla expenses from which he paid the rent on his expensive residence, one which they even picked for him.
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 CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE FACTS AND INFORMATION
The Constitution of the Irish_Free_State was the constitution of the independent Irish state established in December 1922.
The constitution was drafted by a committee under the nominal chairmanship of Michael Collins that also included James_McNeill, who became the second Governor-General_of_the_Irish_Free_State.
The Constitution was shaped by the requirements of the Anglo-Irish_Treaty, signed between representatives of the British_Government and the Irish_Republic in December 1922.
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