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president of the executive council

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 480 words | Copyright

president of the executive council, title of the prime minister of the Irish Free State 1922–37. Under the 1922 constitution he was nominated by the Dáil. He could nominate the vice‐president but the other members of the executive council had to be approved by the Dáil. If the president lost a majority in the Dáil, the executive council had to resign and, an important restriction, dissolution was on the council's advice, not his.

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