CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND
Enacted by the People 1st July, 1937
In operation as from 29th December, 1937
This text of the Constitution is a copy of the text enrolled on 27 May, 1999 pursuant to Article 25.5.2° except that:
the Transitory Provisions (Articles 51-63) are omitted as required by their terms; the Irish text has been altered so as to make it conform to modern standardized Irish; the twentieth amendment, enacted subsequent to enrolment, is incorporated; the new Articles 2 and 3 and the new section 8 in Article 29 are inserted pursuant to the provisions of the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1998; the twenty-first, twenty-third, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh amendments, enacted subsequent to enrolment have now been incorporated.
Amendments effected since the Constitution was enacted in 1937 up to the time of printing of this edition (November 2004) are listed below.