Tenth Dáil
(30 June 1938 - 26 June 1943)
Second Government
Name: Eamon de Valera
Posts held:
Taoiseach
External Affairs
(from: 30.6.38 to 1.7.43)
Name: Seán T. Okelly
Posts held:
Tánaiste (from: 30.6.38 to 2.7.43)
Local Government & Public Health (from: 30.6.38 to 8.9.39)
Name: Patrick Ruttledge
Post held: Justice (from: 30.6.38 to 8.9.39)
Name: Seán F. Lemass
Post held: Industry & Commerce (from: 30.6.38 to 16.9.39)
Name: Seán MacEntee
Post held: Finance (from: 30.6.38 to 10.9.39)
Name: James Ryan
Post held: Agriculture (from: 30.6.39 to 2.7.43)
Name: Frank Aiken
Post held: Defence (from: 30.6.39 to 8.9.39)
Name: Thomas Derrig
Post held: Education (from: 30.6.39 to 8.9.39)
Name: Gerald Boland
Post held: Lands (from: 30.6.39 to 8.9.39)
Name: Oscar Traynor
Post held: Posts & Telegraphs (from: 30.6.39 to 8.9.39)
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES
Name: Patrick J. Little
Posts held:
Taoiseach
External Affairs
(From: 30.6.38 to 26.9.39)
Name: Dr. Francis Ward
Post held: Local Government & Public Health (from: 30.6.38 to
Name: Hugh V. Flinn
Post held: Finance (from: 30.6.38 to
Name: Seán O'Grady
Posts held:
Lands (from 30.6.38 to
Defence (from: 30.6.38 to 28.8.39)
Name: Seán Moylan
Post held: Industry & Commerce (from: 30.6.38 to
Name: Patrick Lynch
Post held: Attorney General (from: 30.6.38 to
PERMANENT OFFICIALS
Name: Maurice Moynihan
Post held: Secretary to the Government (continuous)
Name: Pádraig Ó Cinnéide
Post held: Assistant Secretary to the Government (from: 29.12.37)
Note:
Where no termination date is given, see next table which indicated a reorganisation of this Cabinet.
30 June 1938 - 26 June 1943
Second Government
(Reorganised Cabinet - European War, 1939)
Name: Eamon de Valera
Post held:
Taoiseach (from: 30.6.38 to 1.7.43)
External Affairs (from: 30.6.38 to 2.7.43)
Local Government & Public Health (from: 15.8.41 to 18.8.41)
Education (from: 27.9.39 to 18.6.40)
Name: Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh
Posts held:
Tánaiste (from: 30.6.38 to 2.7.43)
Min for Local Government & Public Health
Finance (from: 16.9.39 to 2.7.43)
Education (from: 8.9.39 to 27.9.39)
Name: Patrick Ruttledge
Posts held:
Justice (from 30.6.38 to 8.9.39)
Local Government & Public Health (from: 8.9.39 to 14.8.41)
Name: Seán McEntee
Posts held:
Finance (from 30.6.38 to 16.9.39)
Local Government & Public Health (from: 18.8.41 to 2.7.43)
Industry & Commerce (from: 16.9.39 to 18.8.41)
Name: Gerald Boland
Posts held:
Lands (from 30.6.38 to 8.9.39)
Justice (from: 8.9.39 to 2.7.43)
Name: Seán Lemass
Post held:
Industry & Commerce (from 30.6.38 to 16.9.39) and (from: 18.8.41 to 2.7.43)
Supplies (from: 8.9.39 to 2.7.43)
Name: James Ryan
Post held: Agriculture (from: 30.6.38 to 2.7.43)
Name: Oscar Traynor
Posts held:
Posts & Telegraphs (30.3.38 to 8.9.39)
Defence (from: 8.9.39 to 2.7.43)
Name: Thomas Derrig
Posts held:
Education (from 30.6.38 to 8.9.39) and (from: 18.6.40 to 2.7.43)
Lands (from: 8.9.39 to 2.7.43)
Posts & Telegraphs (from: 8.9.39 to 27.9.39)
Name: Patrick Little
Post held: Posts & Telegraphs (from: 27.9.39 to 2.7.43)
Name: Frank Aiken
Posts held:
Defence (from 30.6.38 to 8.9.39)
Co-ordination of Defence Measures (from: 8.9.39 to 2.7.43)
PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES
Name: Patrick J. Little
Posts held:
Taoiseach
External Affairs
(to 26.9.39 when appointed Min for Posts & Telegraphs
Name: Patrick Smith
Posts held:
Taoiseach
External Affairs
(from: 27.9.39 to 26.6.43)
Name: Francis C. Ward
Post held: Local Government & Public Health (from: 30.6.38 to 26.6.43)
Name: Hugo V. Flinn
Posts held:
Local Government & Public Health (from: 12.9.41 to 28.1.43)
Finance (from: 12.9.41 to 28.1.43)
Name: Seán Moylan
Posts held:
Finance (from: 10.2.43 to 26.6.43)
Defence (from: 29.8.39 to 26.6.43)
Industry & Commerce (from: 30.6.38 to 9.2.43)
Name: Eamon Kissane
Post held: Lands (from: 10.2.43 to 26.6.43)
Name: Seán O'Grady
Posts held:
Lands (from 12.9.41 to 9.2.43)
Industry & Commerce (from: 10.2.43 to 26.6.43)
ATTORNEY GENERALS
Name: Patrick Lynch
Attorney General (from: 30.6.38 to 1.3.40) resigned
Name: Kevin Haugh
Attorney General (from: 2.3.40 to 10.10.42) - appointed as Judge of the High Court
Name: Kevin Dixon
Attorney General (from: 10.10.42 to 1.7.43)
PERMANENT OFFICIALS
Name: Maurice Moynihan
Post held: Secretary to the Government (continuous)
Name: Pádraig Ó Cinnéide
Post held: Assistant Secretary to the Government (continuous)