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Title: The Irish Constitution
Explained by Darrell Figgis

Author: Darrell Figgis

Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32612]

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THE IRISH CONSTITUTION

[Illustration: THE CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE IN SESSION.

_From left to right_:--R. J. P. MORTISHED (_Secretary_), JOHN O'BYRNE,
B.L.; C. J. FRANCE, DARRELL FIGGIS (_Acting Chairman_), E. M. STEPHENS,
B.L. (_Secretary_); P. A. O'TOOLE, B.L. (_Secretary_); JAMES MACNEILL,
HUGH KENNEDY, K.C.; JAMES MURNAHAN, B.L.; JAMES DOUGLAS. (PROF. ALFRED
O'RAHILLY and KEVIN O'SHIEL, B.L. were absent from the Session).]

THE
IRISH CONSTITUTION

EXPLAINED
BY
DARRELL FIGGIS

MELLIFONT PRESS, LTD.
KILDARE HOUSE,
WESTMORELAND STREET, DUBLIN

I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK
TO MY FRIEND
ARTHUR GRIFFITH

CONTENTS

PAGE

INTRODUCTION 5

EXPLANATION 15

DRAFT CONSTITUTION 63

ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT FOR A TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 96

Introduction

IRELAND AND A COMMUNITY OF NATIONS.

The articles that are now gathered together in this little book were first
published in the _Irish Independent_ at the invitation of its Editor. They
were not written for publication in book-form; and they naturally suffer,
in their present form, from the conditions that were first imposed on
them, conditions proper to their original setting. With the exception of
two of them, they were written rather in a spirit of exposition than in a
spirit of analysis and criticism; and this intention was only departed
from because i