Editing Domhnall Ua Buachalla (section)

==Instruction to keep a low profile==
De Valera explicitly instructed Ua Buachalla as Governor-General to keep a low public profile, and not to fulfil public engagements, which was part of de Valera's policy to make the office an irrelevance by reducing it to invisibility. While he continued to give [[royal assent (Ireland)|royal assent]] to legislation, summon and dissolve [[Dáil Éireann]] and fulfil the other formal duties of the office, he declined all public invitations and kept himself invisible, as advised by his Government. In fact in his period in office he performed only one public function: the receipt of the credentials of the French Ambassador to Ireland in the Council Chamber, Government Buildings, 1933, on behalf of King [[George V]]. However, de Valera subsequently had that duty moved from the Governor-General to his own post of [[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|President of the Executive Council]];
instead of presenting his credentials to Ua Buachalla, the US Legation Minister, [[William Wallace McDowell]], presented himself to de Valera.<ref name="TIME">[https://web.archive.org/web/20080501131445/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C929707%2C00.html Seanascal Domnhall], ''[[TIME]]'', April 9, 1934</ref>

One of the few other occasions Ua Buachalla was mentioned at all in public was when, in the aftermath of the death of King George V in January 1936, he had to reply to messages of condolence sent to the Irish people by United States President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Cordell Hull]].

On de Valera's instruction, Ua Buachalla did not reside in the official residence of the Governor-General, the Viceregal Lodge (now called [[Áras an Uachtaráin]], the residence of the [[President of Ireland]]).<ref name="TIME" /> Instead, a house was rented for his use in [[Monkstown, County Dublin|Monkstown]], outside of Dublin.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/0508/037.html |title=Permalink - Stills Library - RTÉ Archives |date=5 July 2012 |access-date=28 September 2016 |archive-date=2 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002043340/https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/0508/037.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The official English title "Governor-General" was largely replaced by the official [[Irish language|Irish]] title "Seanascal" or its direct translation, "[[Seneschal]]"; however, "Governor-General" remained the legal form used in official English-language documents and proclamations.<ref>[http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000580782 Headed paper and seal of the Governor General (Seanascal) of the Irish Free State] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001221343/http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000580782 |date=1 October 2016 }}, [[National Library of Ireland]]</ref> Ua Buachalla refused all but [[Irish pound|£]]2,000 of the £10,000 salary of the Governor-General.