The Executive Council was the cabinet and de facto executive branch of government of the 1922–1937 Irish Free State. Formally, executive power was vested in the Governor-General on behalf of the King.
Executive Council of the Irish Free State pictured in 1928.
W.T. Cosgrave, first head of the Government in the Irish Free State (standing, far-right), representing the Irish Free State at the 1926 Imperial Conference in London, along with King George V and the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Cumann na nGaedheal
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Cumann na nGaedheal was a political party in the Irish Free State, which formed the government from 1923 to 1932. It was named after the original Cumann na nGaedheal organisation which merged with the
Executive Council of the Irish Free State
…Party 3rd 1922 election 1st Executive Council W. T. Cosgrave Kevin O'Higgins Sinn Féin (Pro-Treaty wing) 4th 1923 election 2nd Executive Council Cumann na nGaedheal 5th 1927 (Jun) election 3rd Executive Council 6th 1927 (Sep) election 4th Executive Council Ernest Blythe 1930 5th Executive Council 7th 1932 election…
Cumann na nGaedheal Government, 1922/1923
During the 1932 election Cumann na nGaedheal propaganda linked Fianna Fáil to the IRA, and the IRA to Communism.