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The Minister for Publicity was the name of a government department in the Government of the Irish Republic, the self-declared state which was established in 1919 by Dáil Éireann, the extra-legal parliamentary assembly made up of the majority of Irish MPs elected in the 1918 general election. The portfolio was created to promote the new government of Ireland throughout the country and also abroad. In the First Dáil, the post was called Director of Propaganda. The post was abolished at the end of the Second Dáil.
[edit] Director of Propaganda
[edit] Minister for Publicity
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Desmond FitzGerald acted as substitute Director of Propaganda while Laurence Ginnell was imprisoned.
- ^ Robert Erskine Childers acted as substitute Director of Propaganda while Desmond FitzGerald was imprisoned.
