section_path: History/Irish Free State (1922–1937)
section_name: Irish Free State (1922–1937)
paragraph_text: Irish Free State (1922–1937)
  
  The Dáil of the Irish Republic was succeeded on 6 December 1922 by the Dáil of the Irish Free State. The Irish Free State, comprising the twenty-six southern and western counties of Ireland, was established under the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty. Dáil Éireann was the house of representatives, described in the new constitution as a " Chamber of Deputies, of a bicameral legislature called the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State." The first Dáil to exist under the Constitution of the Irish Free State succeeded the Second Dáil of the Irish Republic and so was styled the Third Dáil. The Third Dáil, and every subsequent Dáil, has met in Leinster House.