An Chéad Dáil Éireann adopted four documents when it met for the first time on January 21st, 1919. Among them was a short five part ‘Constitution of Dáil Éireann’. It allowed for the creation of a five person ‘Ministry’, a de facto cabinet made up of a President of the

The general election of December 1918 was an election of historical firsts and historical lasts. It was the