Saturday 14 October 1922

“The usual quarterly meeting was held in the School of Art on Saturday….The irregular attendance in the schools was severely commented upon, and after a lengthy discussion the following resolution was unanimously adopted:-

“That we, the Cork City Branch of the I.N.T.O [Irish National Teachers Organisation], request the Minister for Home Affairs to sanction provisionally, with a view to subsequent legislation on similar lines, the Irish Education Act (Compulsory Attendance) as amended by the Cork City Sinn Fein Executive, and worked with such satisfactory results in the Cork City Parliamentary Area during the past school year. That copies of this resolution, accompanied by a copy of the amended Act be sent to the local T.D.’s our General Secretary, and to the Chairman of the Labour Party in the Dail for the purpose of giving expression to the terms of the resolution.”

[source: Irish Examiner p3Tuesday 18 October 1922]

Wednesday 25 October 1922

SIGNING OF THE IRISH FREE STATE (SAORSTÁT EIREANN) ACT

“AN ACT TO ENACT A CONSTITUTION FOR THE IRISH FREE STATE (SAORSTÁT EIREANN) AND FOR IMPLEMENTING THE TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND SIGNED AT LONDON ON THE 6^TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1921.

Dáil Eireann sitting as a Constituent Assembly in this Provisional Parliament, acknowledging that all lawful authority comes from God to the people and in the confidence that the National life an unity of Ireland shall thus be restored, hereby proclaims the establishment of The Irish Free State (otherwise called Saorstát Eireann) and in the exercise of undoubted right, decrees and enacts as follows:-

1. The Constitution set forth in the First Schedule hereto annexed shall be the Constitution of The Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann).
2. The said Constitution shall be construed with reference to the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland set forth in the Second Schedule hereto annexed (hereinafter referred to as “the Scheduled Treaty”) which are hereby given the force of law, and it any provision of the said Constitution or of any amendment thereof or of any law made thereunder is in any respect repugnant to any of the provisions of the Scheduled Treaty, it shall, to the extent only of such repugnancy, be absolutely void and inoperative and the Parliament and the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) shall respectively pass such further legislation and do all such other things as may be necessary to implement the Scheduled Treaty.
3. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Constitution of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) Act, 1922.

For further details on the Articles of the Act:

https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1922/act/1/enacted/en/print.html

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