The 8th Seanad was in office from 1954 to 1957. An election to

Seanad Éireann Seanad Éireann ( ; ; "Senate of Ireland") is the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (defined as the house of representatives). It is commonly called the Seanad or ...

, the

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of the

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(Irish parliament), followed the 1954 general election to the

15th Dáil The 15th Dáil was elected at the 1954 general election on 14 May 1954 and met on 2 June 1954. The members of Dáil Éireann, the house of representatives of the Oireachtas (legislature), of Ireland are known as TDs. It sat with the 8th Seana ...

. The senators served until the close of poll for the

9th Seanad The 9th Seanad was in office from 1957 to 1961. An election to Seanad Éireann, the senate of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament), followed the 1957 general election to the 16th Dáil. The senators served until the close of poll for the 10th Se ...

in 1957.

Cathaoirleach

On 22 July 1954, Patrick Baxter ( CnaT), was proposed by Michael Hayes ( FG) and seconded by William Quirke ( FF) for the position of

Cathaoirleach Cathaoirleach (; Irish language, Irish for Chair (officer), chairperson; plural: ) is the title of the chair (or speaker (politics), presiding officer) of Seanad Éireann, the sixty-member upper house of the Oireachtas, the legislature of Repub ...

. He was elected unopposed. On 27 July 1954,

Liam Ó Buachalla Liam Ó Buachalla (10 April 1899 – 15 October 1970) was a Fianna Fáil politician from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. He was active as a financial expert in the Irish War of Independence. He was a Seanad Éireann, Senator from 1939 to 1969, ...

(FF), Cathaoirleach of the 7th Seanad, was proposed by Frederick Hawkins (

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) and seconded by Michael Hayes (FG) for the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach. He was elected unopposed.

Composition of the 8th Seanad

There are a total of 60 seats in the Seanad: 43 were elected on five

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s, 6 were elected from two

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and 11 were

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. The following table shows the composition by party when the 8th Seanad first met on 22 July 1954.

Cathaoirleach

Composition of the 8th Seanad

List of senators

Changes

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