Editing Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (section)

==Abolition==
The [[Government of Ireland Act 1920]] divided Ireland into two [[devolution|devolved]] entities inside the [[United Kingdom]], [[Northern Ireland]] and [[Southern Ireland (1921–22)|Southern Ireland]]. Two institutions were meant to join the two; a [[Council of Ireland]] (which was hoped would evolve into a working all-Ireland parliament) and the Lord Lieutenant who would be the nominal chief executive of both regimes, appointing both prime ministers and dissolving both parliaments. In fact only Northern Ireland functioned, with Southern Ireland being quickly replaced by the [[Irish Free State]] with [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State|its own Governor-General]]. The [[Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922]] provided that, once the [[Parliament of Northern Ireland]] opted out of the Free State, the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland would be abolished and its residual powers transferred to the new position of [[Governor of Northern Ireland]]. This duly happened on 8 December 1922, two days after the [[Constitution of the Irish Free State|Free State Constitution]] came into force.<ref name="Quekett196"/>