The Official Seal of the President of Ireland (Irish: Séala Oifigeamhail Uachtarán na hÉireann) was presented to the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde and every subsiquent president to be affixed to every "...order, commission, warrant, or other instrument..."1 which the president has witnessed. A serving president has custody of the official seal, but if his powers are been carried out by the Presidential Commission, then they shall have custody of the offcial seal. Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... The President of Ireland (Irish: Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of the Republic of Ireland. ... Douglas Hyde (Ir: Dubhghlas de hÍde [doog-las de heeja]) (January 17, 1860 - July 12, 1949) was a Gaelic scholar who served as the first President of Ireland (1938-1945). ...
The official seal has the word "ÉIRE" in Gaelic Script, and uses the modified harp that is still used as the official state symbol on coins and documents of Ireland. The the official seal is quite similar to the design of the Great Seal of the Irish Free State which was itself under the custody of the Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Map of Éire Éire (pronounced AIR uh, in the Irish language, translated as Ireland) is the name given in Article 4 of the 1937 Irish constitution to the 26-county Irish state, created under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, which was known between 1922 and 1937 as the Irish Free... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann) is the official description of an independent state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of north-west Europe. ... The Great Seal of the Irish Free State (Irish: Séala Mor do Shaorstát Eireann) was the Great Seal which replaced the Great Seal of the Realm used to seal official documents of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Éireann). ... The Governor-General of the Irish Free State (Irish: Seanascal Shaorstáit Eireann) was the representative of the Crown in the Irish Free State between 1922 and 1936. ...
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1. Presidential Seal Act, 1937 (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1937_37.html)
The President'sofficial residence is Ãras an Uachtaráin in Dublin.
The Taoiseach is appointed upon the nomination of Dáil Ãireann (the lower house of parliament), and the remainder of the cabinet upon the nomination of the Taoiseach.
The office of President of Ireland was established in 1937, in part as a replacement for the office of Governor-General that existed during the 1922 -1937 Irish Free State.
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