Word: dail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that they have not-officially. I'm the Prime Minister of the Free State and as such the titular head of the state. The Governor-General is appointed on my advice. He is merely the ceremonial representative of the British King. I come up for election in the Dail [the lower house] and have to be approved by the Seanad [the Senate]. Then I appoint my ministers and they are approved in the same manner as I am approved. England has no voice or part in the selection of either myself or my min-isters...
Although zealous, Mr. Cosgrave was not immediately conspicuous in a party of zealots. Elected a Deputy of the Dail Eireann, he advanced to cabinet rank in the Provisional Government; but in the spring of 1922 he was still little known to Irishmen. Yet when winter came he was, and is now President of the Irish Free State...
...Dail Eireann, sixth in the six years that the Irish Free State has existed, met last week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...debate on the election was along party lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
...next day, by an identical vote, his Ministry was approved by the Dail. The only change was the appointment of Fitzgerald Kenny as Minister of Justice in succession to the slain Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (TIME, July 18, 1925). Ernest Blythe is Vice President in addition to being Minister of Finance, the former post also having been held by Mr. O'Higgins at the time of his death...