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

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. They were led by

W. T. Cosgrave William Thomas Cosgrave (5 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932, leader of the Opposition in both the Free State and Ire ...

, who had become the leader of the Pro-Treaty wing of Sinn Féin and on 27 April 1923 became the first leader of the

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. The 2nd Provisional Government and the 5th Ministry lasted for overlapping concurrent periods of days and days respectively. The 1st Executive Council lasted for days.

2nd Provisional Government and 5th Ministry

The 2nd

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(30 August 1922 – 6 December 1922) was formed by

, who had been appointed as

Chairman of the Provisional Government The Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State was a transitional post established in January 1922, lasting until the creation of the Irish Free State in December 1922. The Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 was passed by th ...

on 25 August 1922, after the death of

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on 22 August, who had led the 1st Provisional Government from 16 January 1922. 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 The 3rd Dáil was elected at the 1922 general election on 16 June and met on 9 September. On its formation, it was a Constituent Assembly in a Provisional Parliament. From 6 December 1922, Dáil Éireann was the lower house of the Oireachtas ...

first met on 9 September 1922. W. T. Cosgrave was proposed as President of the Dáil by

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and seconded by

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. This motion was carried and Cosgrave and formed the 5th Ministry (9 September 1922 – 6 December 1922), composed of Pro-Treaty members of

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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

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(6 December 1922 – 19 September 1923) was formed by Pro-Treaty faction of

, which became

in April 1923. On 6 December 1922, the Constitution of the Irish Free State came into force.

William T. Cosgrave William Thomas Cosgrave (5 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932, leader of the Opposition in both the Free State and Ire ...

was proposed as President of the Executive Council by Peter Hughes and seconded by Francis McGuinness, and this motion was approved by the Dáil. The President nominated the members of the Executive Council on 6 December.

Ministers not members of the Executive Council

The following Ministers were proposed by a committee of the Dáil on 14 December 1922.

Parliamentary Secretaries

The Executive Council appointed the following Parliamentary Secretaries. These were newly created offices.

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2nd Provisional Government and 5th Ministry

Ministers not members of the Executive Council

Parliamentary Secretaries

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