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 24th 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'.
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Ministers not in cabinet
| Preceded by: Second Ministry |
Irish cabinets | Succeeded by Fourth Ministry First Provisional Government (parallel) |
