Comhairle na dTeachtaí (Irish pronunciation:[ˈkoːɾˠl̠ʲən̪ˠəˈdʲaxt̪ˠiː]; "Council of Deputies") was anIrish republicanparliament established by opponents of the 1921Anglo-Irish Treaty and the resultingIrish Free State, and viewed byrepublican legitimatists as a successor to theSecond Dáil.[1] Members wereabstentionist from theThird Dáil established by the pro-Treaty faction. Just as theFirst Dáil established a parallelIrish Republic in opposition to the BritishDublin Castle administration, so Comhairle na dTeachtaí attempted to establish a legitimatist government in opposition to theProvisional Government andGovernment of the Irish Free State established by the Third Dáil.[2] This legitimatist government, called theCouncil of State, hadÉamon de Valera as president. In 1926 de Valera resigned as president, left theSinn Féin party and foundedFianna Fáil, which in 1927 entered theFourth Dáil.[2] Comhairle na dTeachtaí, never more than a symbolic body, was thereby rendered defunct.
Fianna Fáil members spoke at a Comhairle na dTeachtaí meeting in December 1926, whose minutes were discovered in a 1928 raid onCumann na mBan headquarters and published in 1930 bythe Cumann na nGaedheal government.[3] Cumann na nGaedheal TDs quoted from this document that year to cast aspersions on Fianna Fáil's commitment tothe Free State constitution.[4]Patrick McGilligan quoted from it in 1932 to oppose Fianna Fáil's proposedwithholding of land annuities,[5] and again in 1947 opposing theSinn Féin Funds Bill.[6]
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