again. The Chief Secretary's chair was taken from the Council Chamber in Dublin Castle to serve as the chair of the Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann. In 1930, the meaning of appeal to "His Majesty in Council" (in the Free State Constitution and Anglo-Irish Treaty) was disputed in a case at the Judicial Committee of the UK Privy Council in London (JCPC). One party claimed that "His Majesty in Council" ought to mean the Privy Council of Ireland, but the JCPC ruled that it meant the JCPC itself. In 1931 The Irish Times reported a rumour that the Free State government was seeking to transfer the JCPC's appellate jurisdiction to a revived Privy Council of Ireland. The Parliamentary Gazette, an unofficial reference work, continued to publish lists of members of the "Privy Council in Ireland" as late as 1934. Official sources after 1922 occasionally retained the style "Rt Hon" for members of the dormant Irish Privy Council; for example in Oireachtas proceedings of Andrew Jameson, Bryan Mahon, and James Macmahon, and in The London Gazette of Henry Givens Burgess. Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan was the last surviving Irish Privy Councillor; appointed on 16 September 1921, he died on 28 November 1982. The 1908 act establishing the National University of Ireland provided it with a petitions review committee to be composed of members of the "Privy Council in Ireland". In 1973 the Seanad expressed concern that because "the Privy Council in Ireland is non-existent" there was no way to process petitions. See also Council of State (Ireland) Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Irish Free State List of Northern Ireland members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom List of Privy Counsellors of Ireland Privy Council (Northern Ireland) References Sources Vol. I, Vol. II. Chapters 3 "Secretum Consilium" and 12 "The Privy Council in the Fifteenth Century" Further reading External links May 1918 photograph of a Privy Council meeting presided over by Lord French Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Privy councils Politics of pre-partition Ireland 1922 disestablishments in Ireland