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<Comhairle na dTeachtaí

"It is interesting to note that de Valera, and those deputies who followed him, did not cut themselves completely adrift from their former comrades at this stage. They remained members of Comhairle na dTeachtai for nine months after they had left the Sinn Fein party."

Stationery Office 1930:
 * 'Document "A" purports to be a note of the proceedings of a meeting held on the 18th and 19th December, 1926 of a body calling itself Comhairle na dTeachtai.'
 * 'Document "B" purports to be a note of the proceedings of a meeting held on the 10th December, 1927 of a body calling itself Dail Eireann."'

'Decree to establish the validity of certain acts done and omissions made by Comhairle na dTeachtai' [between 1924 and 1926]

Papers in archives
BMH Sidney Czira papers (CD186) include (Group 13):
 * Dáil Éireann accounts July 1924-June 1925, and minutes of 28 June 1925 meeting
 * Opinion of counsel and questions by Art O'Connor on status of Comhairle na dTeachtai, 28 October 1926
 * Dáil Éireann minutes and manifesto of 10 Dec 1927 meeting

UCD FF archives
 * The "Comhairle na dTeachtai Committee of Sinn Fein" on 30 Sep 1925 made a report on setting up of ‘An Phoblacht’ as successor to ‘Sinn Fein’.

UCD De Valera papers P150
 * P150/1944-1949: 1924 -1926 MAIN SERIES ON Comhairle na dTeachtai
 * P150/586 July & August 1924 "Copies of Republican Government Departmental reports sent by the various Ministers to de Valera on his release from jail in Arbour Hill Barracks...Comprises covering letter to de Valera from Ruttledge enclosing ... report (5 August 1924) by P.J. Ruttledge on the overall situation tracing the activities of the Republican Government since de Valera’s arrest in August 1923–... the issuing of a Decree in connection with the 1923 General Election; meetings of the available Republican deputies after the election; the nomination of a Directorate approved by Comhairle na dTeachtaí [sic; recte Second Dáil, or was is proleptic use of name Comhairle na dTeachtaí to reflect inclusion of 1922 and 1923 electees, and if so did Republicans view meeting as legislative assembly or mere ad hoc gathering?] and the Standing Committee of Sinn Féin; ..."
 * P150/1695
 * P150/1753 "ratification of [Aiken's] appointment as Minister for Defence at a meeting of Comhairle na dTeachtaí (23 August 1924, 1p).
 * PI50/1869 "1924 ...Includes letters from: ... George Noble Count Plunkett on the calling together of a Committee to prepare Standing Orders for Comhairle na dTeachtaí;"

NLI Ceannt and O'Brennan Papers
 * "Account of a meeting of Comhairle na d'Teachtaí ... The document details some resolutions and amendments covered at the meeting, at the end of which President Éamon De Valera resigned and Art O'Connor became President"

NLI Joseph Smartt papers Ms 33,738 [1 of 11 items: "agenda for meeting of Comhairle na dTeachtai for 7 July, 1924"]

UCD Seán Macentee papers
 * P67/91 1926 "Copies of 3 Dáil decrees concerning the membership of Comhairle na dTeachtai and of Dáil Éireann, and the position of President of the Republic."
 * P67/83 9 October 1924 "Notification from Mary McSwiney, Sinn Fein, Suffolk Street, Dublin, of the next meeting of Comhairle na dTeachtai"

CCCA Seamus Fitzgerald Papers
 * PR6/135 4 March 1925 "Circular advising of a meeting of Sinn Fein Comhairle na dTeachtai"