Dublin Castle administration
Act of Union 1800, and thereafter at Westminster
.
Head
The head of the administration or
Lord Deputy, from the seventeenth century the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and later the Viceroy. Before 1707, he represented the government of the Kingdom of England, then that of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and finally from 1801 that of the United Kingdom. He was also the personal representative in Ireland of the monarch. When the chief governor was absent in England, his authority was exercised by three Lords Justices
.
By the nineteenth century, the Lord Lieutenant was declining in importance by comparison with his chief aide, the Chief Secretary for Ireland: the British cabinet would invariably include the Chief Secretary, but only sometimes the Lord Lieutenant.
The
Southern Ireland. However, the Irish War of Independence and subsequent Civil War meant that Southern Ireland's institutions never came into operation and Northern Ireland's institutions were not established until 1921. Upon the independence of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom in 1922, the Lord Lieutenancy was abolished, with its functions being transferred to the two new offices of Governor-General of the Irish Free State and Governor of Northern Ireland
respectively.
Other officers
Other major officers in the Dublin Castle administration included the
Irish Government, the Secretary to the Executive Council
.
Civil service
Just as the
Civil Service of Northern Ireland
. Those based in the Free State who were unsympathetic to the new regime were allowed to retire early on reduced pension.
See also
- Dublin Gazette
Sources
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- McBride, Lawrence W. (1991). The Greening of Dublin Castle: the transformation of bureaucratic and judicial personnel in Ireland, 1892-1922. Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 9780813207155.
- McCarthy, Denis; Benton, David (2004). Dublin Castle: at the heart of Irish History. Dublin: Stationery Office. ISBN 9780755719754.
- McDowell, R. B. [Robert Brendan] (1964). The Irish Administration, 1801–1914. Studies in Irish History. Vol. s2 v2. Routledge & Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press. OCLC 906125229– via Internet Archive.
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- Smyth, Constantine J. (1839). . London: Henry Butterworth.
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