The Constitution of the Irish Free State provided that Oireachtas \u00a0with exclusive power to regulate, raise and \u00a0maintain armed forces.\u00a0 Armed forces were subject to the control of the Oireachtas.<\/p>\n
The Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act deemed \u00a0the armed forces of the state to be the then continuing and existing national forces as the constitutional and legal armed forces of the State depending the establishment of permanent forces. The formal forces were established by proclamation of the Executive Council on 1st October 1924 as successor to the temporary forces.<\/p>\n
The 1937 Constitution continued these exclusive power of the Oireachtas to \u00a0raise and maintain military and armed forces in the State. Supreme command was regulated by law and formally vested in the President.\u00a0 The command of the armed forces is vested in the government exercised through the Minister for Defence.<\/p>\n
The 1923 Act was continued by the Defence Forces (Continuance and Amendment) Act 1924.\u00a0 The armed forces renamed, the military defence force;\u00a0 became the Defence Forces under the Defence Act 1954. The legislation in relation to the defence forces was ultimately consolidated and continued in the Defence Act 1954.<\/p>\n
Subsequent legislation (1960) authorised members to serve with United Nations with duties of a police character. 1987 legislation permitted the enlistment of women]. \u00a0A 1990 act provided with the establishment of a representative association within the permanent defence forces. \u00a0A 1993 act authorised members of the Permanent Defence Force to participate in United Nations missions, with a wider scope than merely one of a police nature.<\/p>\n\n
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First Dail Declaration In January 1919, the Sinn Fein members of parliament elected in the 1918 UK General Election formed an assembly in the Mansion House, Dublin instead of taking their seats in parliament.\u00a0 It was not immediately apparent, if this was a determined effort to assert independence or whether it was symbolic.\u00a0 Many of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19575,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/19575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}