Unit: Department of Education (I)

Department of Education (I)

an Roinn Oideachais

Sunday 1st of June 1924 - Tuesday 30th of September 1997

Renamed the Department of Education and Science

From date: 1924-06-01
To date: 1997-09-30
Source: S.I. 430/1997; Coakley & Gallagher 2005; Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924
Confidence: Very Confident
Names: an Roinn Oideachais
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- Description: Irish Language Name
- From date: 1924-06-01
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Legal forms: Ministerial Departments
- Source: S.I. 430/1997; Coakley & Gallagher 2005; Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924
- From date: 1924-06-01
- To date: 1997-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Functions: Policy Formation and Execution
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- From date: 1924-06-01
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: Education and Training
- Source: S.I. 430/1997; Coakley & Gallagher 2005; Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924
- From date: 1924-06-01
- To date: 1997-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Counties: Dublin
- Source: IPA Yearbooks
- From date: 1924-06-01
- To date: 1997-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Micheál Martin
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil; continued as Minister for Education and Science
- From date: 1997-06-26
- To date: 1997-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Charles Haughey
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1982-10-07
- To date: 1982-10-27
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Séamus Brennan
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1992-02-11
- To date: 1993-01-12
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Mary O'Rourke
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1987-03-10
- To date: 1991-11-14
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: John Wilson
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1977-07-05
- To date: 1981-06-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Pádraig Faulkner
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1969-07-02
- To date: 1973-03-14
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Donagh O'Malley
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1966-07-13
- To date: 1968-03-10
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: John Boland
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1981-06-30
- To date: 1982-03-09
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Gemma Hussey
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1982-12-14
- To date: 1986-02-14
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Brian Lenihan (Sr.)
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1968-03-27
- To date: 1969-07-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Niamh Bhreathnach
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Labour Party
- From date: 1994-12-15
- To date: 1997-06-26
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Niamh Bhreathnach
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Labour Party
- From date: 1993-01-12
- To date: 1994-11-17
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Michael Smith
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1994-11-18
- To date: 1994-12-15
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Noel Davern
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1991-11-14
- To date: 1992-02-11
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Patrick Cooney
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1986-02-14
- To date: 1987-03-10
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Gerard Brady
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1982-10-27
- To date: 1982-12-14
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Martin O'Donoghue
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1982-03-09
- To date: 1982-10-06
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Peter Barry
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1976-12-02
- To date: 1977-05-25
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Richard Burke
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1973-03-14
- To date: 1976-12-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Jack Lynch
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1968-03-10
- To date: 1968-03-26
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Jack Lynch
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1957-03-20
- To date: 1959-06-23
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Patrick Hillery
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1959-06-23
- To date: 1965-04-21
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Richard Mulcahy
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1954-06-02
- To date: 1957-03-20
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Richard Mulcahy
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fine Gael
- From date: 1948-02-18
- To date: 1951-06-13
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Thomas Derrig
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: (Tomás Ó Deirg); Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1940-06-18
- To date: 1948-02-18
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Thomas Derrig
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: (Tomás Ó Deirg); Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1932-03-09
- To date: 1939-09-08
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Éamon de Valera
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1939-09-27
- To date: 1940-06-18
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: John O'Sullivan
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Cumann na nGaedhael
- From date: 1926-01-27
- To date: 1932-03-09
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Eoin MacNeill
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Cumann na nGaedhael; was Minister for Education under the Provisional Government since 1922
- From date: 1924-01-01
- To date: 1925-11-24
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Seán O'Kelly
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1939-09-08
- To date: 1939-09-27
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Seán Moylan
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1951-06-13
- To date: 1954-06-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: George Colley
- Source: http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/
- Description: Fianna Fáil
- From date: 1965-04-21
- To date: 1966-07-13
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: pre-primary and primary education
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: secondary education
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: tertiary education
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: education not definable by level
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: subsidiary services to education
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: education NEC
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924; S.I. No. 430/1997
- To date: 1997-10-01
- Confidence: Very Confident
Comptrollers: yes
- Source: http://audgen.gov.ie/
- From date: 1924-06-01
- To date: 1997-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ombudsmans: yes
- Source: Ombudsman Act 1980
- From date: 1980-01-01
- To date: 1997-09-30
- Confidence: Very Confident
Financial information:
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/16/enacted/en/html
URL: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1997/si/430/

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
S.I. No. 430/1997 (Education and Science)	1997-10-01	Department of Education (I)	Department of Education and Science
S.I. No. 22/1925 (Commissioners of Education)	1925-03-31	Commissioners of Education in Ireland	Department of Education (I)
S.I. No. 22/1925 (Commissioners of Education)	1925-03-31	Department of Education (I)	Department of Education (I)
Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 (Department of Education (I))	1924-06-02	Ministry of Education	Department of Education (I)
S.I. No. 17/1925 (Intermediate Education Commissioners)	1925-03-31	Intermediate Education Commissioners	Department of Education (I)
S.I. No. 264/1935 (National Education Commissioners)	1935-08-02	National Education Commissioners	Department of Education (I)
S.I. No. 101/1927 (Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland)	1927-12-13	Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland	Department of Education (I)

Unit Information

Department of Education (I)

an Roinn Oideachais