Irish cabinets since 1919

Ireland (and predecessor states)

The executive branch of the modern state of Ireland is titled the Government of Ireland. It has had this title since the adoption of the Constitution of Ireland in 1937. The Ministry of Dáil Éireann was the cabinet of the unrecognised Irish Republic, which operated from 1919 to 1922. This overlapped with the Provisional Government which was put in place after the approval of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in January 1922. Both these cabinets ceased to operate from December 1922, on the coming into being of the Irish Free State. From 1922 to 1937, the cabinet was known as the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

Types of government since 1919

Cabinet	State	Head	Deputy	Constitution	Date
Ministry	Irish Republic	President of Dáil ÉireannTemplate:Efn	N/A	Dáil Constitution	21 January 1919 – 6 December 1922
Provisional Government	Southern Ireland	Chairman	N/A	Irish Free State (Agreement) Act 1922	3 May 1921 – 6 December 1922
Executive Council	Irish Free State	President	Vice-President	Constitution of the Irish Free State	6 December 1922 – 29 December 1937
Government	Ireland	Taoiseach	Tánaiste	Constitution of Ireland	Since 29 December 1937

Cabinets since 1919

State	Dáil	Election	Formation	Cabinet	Composition	Head		Deputy
Irish Republic	1st	1918	Template:Dts	1st ministry	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Cathal Brugha		N/A
			Template:Dts	2nd ministry		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera		Arthur GriffithTemplate:Efn
	2nd	1921	Template:Dts	3rd ministry	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera		N/A
			Template:Dts	4th ministryTemplate:Efn	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Arthur Griffith		N/A
Southern Ireland			Template:Dts	1st provisional governmentTemplate:Efn		Michael CollinsTemplate:Efn		N/A
	3rd	1922	Template:Dts	2nd provisional governmentTemplate:Efn	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	W. T. Cosgrave		N/A
Irish Free State			Template:Dts	1st executive council		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Kevin O'Higgins
	4th	1923	Template:Dts	2nd executive council	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	W. T. Cosgrave	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Kevin O'Higgins
	5th	June 1927	Template:Dts	3rd executive council	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	W. T. Cosgrave	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Kevin O'Higgins
						Ernest Blythe
	6th	Sept. 1927	Template:Dts	4th executive council	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	W. T. Cosgrave	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Ernest Blythe
			Template:Dts	5th executive council
	7th	1932	Template:Dts	6th executive council	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán T. O'Kelly
	8th	1933	Template:Dts	7th executive council	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán T. O'Kelly
	9th	1937	Template:Dts	8th executive council	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Seán T. O'Kelly
Ireland			Template:DtsTemplate:Efn	1st government		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
	10th	1938	Template:Dts	2nd government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán T. O'Kelly
	11th	1943	Template:Dts	3rd government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán T. O'Kelly
	12th	1944	Template:Dts	4th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán T. O'Kelly
						style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Seán LemassTemplate:Efn
	13th	1948	Template:Dts	5th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John A. Costello	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	William Norton
	14th	1951	Template:Dts	6th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán Lemass
	15th	1954	Template:Dts	7th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John A. Costello	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	William Norton
	16th	1957	Template:Dts	8th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Éamon de Valera	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Seán Lemass
			Template:Dts	9th government		Seán Lemass	Seán MacEntee
	17th	1961	Template:Dts	10th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán Lemass	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Seán MacEntee
	18th	1965	Template:Dts	11th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Seán Lemass	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Frank Aiken
			Template:Dts	12th government		Jack Lynch
	19th	1969	Template:Dts	13th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Jack Lynch	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Erskine H. Childers
	20th	1973	Template:Dts	14th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Liam Cosgrave	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brendan Corish
	21st	1977	Template:Dts	15th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Jack Lynch	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	George Colley
			Template:Dts	16th government		Charles Haughey	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |
	22nd	1981	Template:Dts	17th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Garret FitzGerald	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Michael O'Leary
	23rd	Feb. 1982	Template:Dts	18th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Charles Haughey	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ray MacSharry
	24th	Nov. 1982	Template:Dts	19th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Garret FitzGerald	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Dick Spring
						style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Peter BarryTemplate:Efn
	25th	1987	Template:Dts	20th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Charles Haughey	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brian Lenihan
	26th	1989	Template:Dts	21st government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Charles Haughey	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Brian Lenihan
						John WilsonTemplate:Efn
			Template:Dts	22nd government		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Albert Reynolds	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Wilson
	27th	1992	Template:Dts	23rd government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Albert Reynolds	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Dick Spring
						style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Bertie AhernTemplate:Efn
			Template:Dts	24th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Bruton	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Dick Spring
	28th	1997	Template:Dts	25th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Bertie Ahern	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Mary Harney
	29th	2002	Template:Dts	26th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Bertie Ahern	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Mary Harney
						Michael McDowellTemplate:Efn
	30th	2007	Template:Dts	27th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Bertie Ahern	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brian Cowen
			Template:Dts	28th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brian Cowen	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Mary Coughlan
	31st	2011	Template:Dts	29th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Enda Kenny	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan="2" |	Eamon Gilmore
						Joan BurtonTemplate:Efn
	32nd	2016	Template:Dts	30th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3 |	Enda Kenny	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3 |	Frances Fitzgerald
			Template:Dts	31st government		Leo Varadkar	Frances Fitzgerald
							Simon CoveneyTemplate:Efn
	33rd	2020	Template:Dts	32nd government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Micheál Martin	style="background-color: Template:Party color"|	Leo Varadkar
			Template:Dts	33rd government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Leo Varadkar	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Micheál Martin
			Template:Dts	34th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Simon Harris	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Micheál Martin
	34th	2024	Template:Dts	35th government	Template:Small	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Micheál Martin	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Simon Harris

Footnotes

Northern Ireland

Template:See also The current devolved branch of Northern Ireland is known as the Northern Ireland Executive, established under the Good Friday Agreement. The Executive has been in operation, intermittently, since 1999, and is current operational. Since 1921, Northern Ireland has been governed by two other devolved cabinets: Executive Committee of the Privy Council from 1921 to 1972 and the Northern Ireland Executive of 1974. Northern Ireland has also been governed by direct rule from 1972 to 1974, 1974–98 and 2002–07.

Types of government since 1921

Cabinet	Head	Deputy	Act	Date
Executive Committee of the Privy Council	Prime Minister of Northern Ireland	Minister of FinanceTemplate:Efn	Government of Ireland Act 1920	7 June 1921 – 30 March 1972
Executive (1974)	Chief Executive	Deputy Chief Executive	Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973	1 January 1974 – 28 May 1974
Executive	First Minister	Deputy First Minister	Northern Ireland Act 1998	1 July 1998 – 14 October 2002 8 May 2007 – present

Direct rule

• The Northern Ireland Office under the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, established initially by the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972 and later Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.

Cabinets since 1921

Body	Election/Formed	Cabinet	Head		Deputy		Parties
1st House of Commons	1921 election	Craigavon ministry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Craig	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Hugh MacDowell Pollock	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
2nd House of Commons	1925 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Craig	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Hugh MacDowell Pollock	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
3rd House of Commons	1929 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Craig	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Hugh MacDowell Pollock	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
4th House of Commons	1933 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	James Craig	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Hugh MacDowell Pollock	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		John Miller Andrews
5th House of Commons	1938 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Craig	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Miller Andrews	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
	1940	Andrews ministry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	John Miller Andrews	None		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		John Milne Barbour
	1943	Brookeborough ministry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Basil Brooke	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Maynard Sinclair	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
6th House of Commons	1945 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Basil Brooke	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Maynard Sinclair	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
7th House of Commons	1949 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Basil Brooke	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	John Maynard Sinclair	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Ulster Unionist Party
			None
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brian Maginess
8th House of Commons	1953 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Basil Brooke	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brian Maginess	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		George Boyle Hanna
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Terence O'Neill
9th House of Commons	1958 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Basil Brooke	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Terence O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
10th House of Commons	1962 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Basil Brooke	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Terence O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
	1963	O'Neill ministry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Terence O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Jack Andrews	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Ivan Neill
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Herbert Kirk
11th House of Commons	1965 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Terence O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Herbert Kirk	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
12th House of Commons	1969 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Terence O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Herbert Kirk	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
	1969 (May)	Chichester-Clark ministry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	James Chichester-Clark	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Jack Andrews	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
	1971	Faulkner ministry	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Brian Faulkner	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Jack Andrews	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
	1972	Direct rule	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State William Whitelaw			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
1973 Assembly	1973 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State William Whitelaw			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1973 (Dec)		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Francis Pym			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1974 (Jan)	Executive (1974)	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Brian Faulkner	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Gerry Fitt	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Social Democratic and Labour Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
	1974 (May)	Direct rule	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Merlyn Rees			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
Constitutional Convention	1975 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Merlyn Rees			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
	1976		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Roy Mason			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
	1979		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1981		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State James Prior			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
1982 Assembly	1982 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State James Prior			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1984		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Douglas Hurd			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1985		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Tom King			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1989		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Peter Brooke			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1992		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Patrick Mayhew			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
Forum	1996 election		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Patrick Mayhew			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Conservative Party
	1997		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Mo Mowlam			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
1st Assembly	1998 election	1st Executive	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4|	David Trimble	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Seamus Mallon	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Social Democratic and Labour Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|		Mark Durkan	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Democratic Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |			Sinn Féin
2nd Assembly	2003 election	Direct rule	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State John Reid			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
	2002		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Paul Murphy			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
	2005		style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Secretary of State Peter Hain			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Labour Party
3rd Assembly	2007 election	2nd Executive	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Ian Paisley	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5|	Martin McGuinness	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Democratic Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Sinn Féin
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=3|	Peter Robinson	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Social Democratic and Labour Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
4th Assembly	2011 election	3rd Executive	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5|	Peter Robinson	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5|	Martin McGuinness	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Democratic Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Sinn Féin
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Social Democratic and Labour Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
5th Assembly	2016 election	4th Executive	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Arlene Foster	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=2|	Martin McGuinness	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Democratic Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Sinn Féin
6th Assembly	2017 electionTemplate:Efn	5th Executive	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5|	Arlene Foster	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=5|	Michelle O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Democratic Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Sinn Féin
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Social Democratic and Labour Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Ulster Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
7th Assembly	2022 electionTemplate:Efn	6th Executive	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4|	Michelle O'Neill	style="background-color: Template:Party color" rowspan=4|	Emma Little-Pengelly	style="background-color: Template:Party color" |	Sinn Féin
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Democratic Unionist Party
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
			style="background-color: Template:Party color" |		Ulster Unionist Party

Footnotes

See also

• List of Irish heads of government
• Dáil election results
• Dáil vote for Taoiseach
• Elections in the Republic of Ireland
• History of the Republic of Ireland
• Politics of the Republic of Ireland
• Elections in Northern Ireland
• Politics of Northern Ireland
• Northern Ireland Assembly
• Parliament of Northern Ireland

External links

• Government of Ireland – History of Government