Third Ministry of the Irish Republic

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The Third Ministry was the Ministry of the Irish Republic that held office from 26 August 1921 to the 9 January 1922. It was the appointed soon after the election of the Second Dáil, on 24 May 1921. In January 1922 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was ratified and some members, including Eamon de Valera, resigned from the cabinet in protest. The Fourth Ministry therefore had be elected.

Contrary to the practice during the first two ministries, when de Valera was re-elected as head of government in 1922 he assumed the title of 'President of the Republic', and therefore explicitly became the republic's head of state, rather than merely its prime minister. In imitation of the practice in the presidential systems of other nations, the cabinet members of the Third Ministry were styled as 'secretaries of state' rather than 'ministers'.

[edit] Membership

Office	Name
President of the Republic	Éamon de Valera
Secretary of State for Finance	Michael Collins
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Arthur Griffith
Secretary of State for Home Affairs	Austin Stack
Secretary of State for Defence	Cathal Brugha
Secretary of State for Local Government	W.T. Cosgrave
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs	Robert Barton

[edit] Ministers not in cabinet

Office	Name
Assistant Secretary of State for Local Government	Kevin O'Higgins
Secretary for Education	John J. O'Kelly
Secretary for Trade and Commerce	Ernest Blythe
Secretary for Agriculture	Art O'Connor
Postmaster-General	James J. Walsh
Secretary for Fisheries	Seán Etchingham
Secretary for Labour	Countess Markievicz
Secretary for Publicity	Desmond FitzGerald
Secretary for Fine Arts	Count Plunkett

Preceded by: Second Ministry

Irish cabinets

Succeeded by: Fourth Ministry First Provisional Government (parallel)