| has gloss | eng: The Irish Free State was, in accordance with its constitution, governed formally under a form of constitutional monarchy. The British Monarch was the head of state of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937. The monarch exercised a number of important duties, including appointing the Executive Council (cabinet), dissolving the legislature and promulgating laws. Nonetheless, by convention the monarchss role was largely ceremonial. The monarchss duties were exercised on his behalf by his official representative, the Governor-General. Most of the monarch's functions were taken from him in the final days of the Irish Free State, under a constitutional amendment adopted in 1936. |
