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2nd Seanad
2nd Seanad
Overview
Legislative body	Seanad Éireann
Jurisdiction	Ireland
Meeting place	Leinster House
Term	27 April 1938 – 22 July 1938
Government	1st Government of Ireland
Members	60
Cathaoirleach	Seán Gibbons (FF)
Leas-Chathaoirleach	Pádraic Ó Máille (FF)
Leader of the; Seanad	William Quirke (FF)

The 2nd Seanad was in office in 1938. An election to Seanad Éireann, the Senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), took place in March 1938, following the coming into operation of the Constitution of Ireland in December 1937. The senators served until the close of poll for the 3rd Seanad, in July 1938.

Designation

The Seanad of the Irish Free State was abolished by the Constitution (Amendment No. 24) Act 1936, with its last meeting on 19 May 1936. The Free State Seanad was elected in stages and thus considered to be in permanent session. Although there were five Seanad elections held before its abolition, the First Seanad includes the entire period from 1922 to 1936.

A new Seanad Éireann was established under the 1937 Constitution, with elections following general elections to Dáil Éireann. To indicate continuity with its Free State predecessor, the first Seanad elected after 1937 is numbered as the Second Seanad. The election to the 2nd Seanad was elected under Article 53 of the Constitution, which provided that on the coming into operation of the Constitution, which took place on 29 December 1937, a general election for the Seanad would take place as if there had been a dissolution of the Dáil.^[1]

Cathaoirleach

On 27 April 1938, Seán Gibbons (FF) was proposed by Helena Concannon (FF) and seconded by Margaret Mary Pearse (FF) for the position of Cathaoirleach. Séamus Ó hEocha (Ind) was proposed by Michael Hayes (FG) and seconded by Michael Tierney (FG) for the position. Gibbons was elected by a vote of 29 to 26.^[2]

On 11 May 1938, Pádraic Ó Máille (FF), who had served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann from 1922 to 1927, was proposed by Seán Hayes (FF) and seconded by Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich (Ind) for the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach. Ó Máille was elected by a vote of 30 to 23.^[3]

Composition of the 2nd Seanad

There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five vocational panels, 6 were elected from two university constituencies and 11 were nominated by the Taoiseach.

The following table shows the composition by party when the 2nd Seanad first met on 27 April 1938.

Origin Party		Vocational panels					NUI	DU	Nominated	Total
Origin Party		Admin	Agri	Cult & Educ	Ind & Comm	Labour	NUI	DU	Nominated	Total
	Fianna Fáil	3	4	1	3	2	1	0	7	21
	Fine Gael	2	3	3	5	2	2	0	0	17
	Labour Party	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
	Independent	2	4	1	1	6	0	3	4	21
Total		7	11	5	9	11	3	3	11	60

List of senators

Note: The entries for Senators who were elected or appointed to fill vacancies are shown in italics

Name	Panel		Notes
Christopher Byrne	Administrative Panel	Fianna Fáil
Thomas Condon	Administrative Panel	Independent
Michael Hayes	Administrative Panel	Fine Gael
Richard Mulcahy	Administrative Panel	Fine Gael	Elected to the 10th Dáil at the general election on 17 June 1938^[4]
John Newcome	Administrative Panel	Independent
Margaret Mary Pearse	Administrative Panel	Fianna Fáil
Thomas Ruane	Administrative Panel	Fianna Fáil
Patrick Baxter	Agricultural Panel	Fine Gael
William Caffrey	Agricultural Panel	Fine Gael
Seán Gibbons	Agricultural Panel	Fianna Fáil
John Nassau Greene	Agricultural Panel	Independent
Patrick Kehoe	Agricultural Panel	Fianna Fáil
Ross McGillycuddy	Agricultural Panel	Independent
William O'Callaghan	Agricultural Panel	Fine Gael
Martin O'Dwyer	Agricultural Panel	Independent
Pádraic Ó Máille	Agricultural Panel	Fianna Fáil
William Quirke	Agricultural Panel	Fianna Fáil
Michael Twomey	Agricultural Panel	Independent
Patrick Doyle	Cultural and Educational Panel	Fine Gael
Seán O'Donovan	Cultural and Educational Panel	Fianna Fáil
Séamus Ó hEocha	Cultural and Educational Panel	Independent
Gearóid O'Sullivan	Cultural and Educational Panel	Fine Gael
James Parkinson	Cultural and Educational Panel	Fine Gael
Daniel Corkery	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fianna Fáil
James Crosbie	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fine Gael
James G. Douglas	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Independent
Michael Hearne	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fianna Fáil
Cornelius Kennedy	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fine Gael
John MacLoughlin	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fine Gael
Linda Kearns MacWhinney	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fianna Fáil
David Madden	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fine Gael
Brian O'Rourke	Industrial and Commercial Panel	Fine Gael
John Butler	Labour Panel	Fine Gael
Michael Conway	Labour Panel	Independent
John Gaffney	Labour Panel	Independent
Frederick Hawkins	Labour Panel	Independent
Seán Hayes	Labour Panel	Fianna Fáil
Gilbert Hughes	Labour Panel	Fianna Fáil
James Johnston	Labour Panel	Independent
Thomas McShea	Labour Panel	Independent
Seán Milroy	Labour Panel	Fine Gael
James Tunney	Labour Panel	Labour
David Walsh	Labour Panel	Independent
Henry Barniville	National University of Ireland	Fine Gael
Helena Concannon	National University of Ireland	Fianna Fáil
Michael Tierney	National University of Ireland	Fine Gael
Ernest Alton	Dublin University	Independent
Joseph Johnston	Dublin University	Independent
Robert Rowlette	Dublin University	Independent
Robert Farnan	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil
T. V. Honan	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil
Douglas Hyde	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Independent	Elected as President of Ireland on 4 May 1938^[5]
Sir John Keane	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Independent
Margaret L. Kennedy	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil
Patrick Keohane	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Independent	Nominated on 10 May 1938, replacing Douglas Hyde^[6]
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Independent
William Magennis	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Independent
Frank MacDermot	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil
Maurice George Moore	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil
David Robinson	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil
Matthew Stafford	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Fianna Fáil

Changes

Date	Panel			Note
4 May 1938	Nominated by the Taoiseach	Independent		Douglas Hyde elected as President of Ireland^[5]
10 May 1938	Nominated by the Taoiseach		Independent	Patrick Keohane nominated to replace Douglas Hyde^[6]
17 June 1938	Administrative Panel	Fine Gael		Richard Mulcahy elected to the 10th Dáil at the 1938 general election^[4]