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The First Dáil (Irish: An Chéad Dáil) was Dáil Éireann as it convened from 1919 to 1921. It was the first meeting of the unicameral parliament of the revolutionary Irish Republic . In the December 1918 election to the Parliament of the United Kingdom , the Irish republican party Sinn Féin won a landslide victory in Ireland.
The government of the 1st Dáil was the executive of the unilaterally declared Irish Republic.At the 1918 Westminster election, candidates for Sinn Féin stood on an abstentionist platform, declaring that they would not remain in the Parliament of the United Kingdom but instead form a unicameral, revolutionary parliament for Ireland called Dáil Éireann.
The Dáil met for the first time on 21 January 1919 in Mansion House in Dublin. Only 27 members attended; most of the other Sinn Féin TDs were imprisoned by the British authorities, or in hiding under threat of arrest.
Dáil Éireann (English: Assembly of Ireland), also called the Revolutionary Dáil, was the revolutionary, unicameral parliament of the Irish Republic from 1919 to 1922. [1] [2] [3] The Dáil was first formed on 21 January 1919 in Dublin by 69 Sinn Féin MPs elected in the 1918 United Kingdom general election, who had won 73 seats of the 105 seats in Ireland, with four party candidates (Arthur ...
First openly gay TD to be elected the leader of a political party in Dáil Eireann, Leo Varadkar (leader of Fine Gael from June 2017 to March 2024 [4] [5]). (Roderic O'Gorman becomes the second openly gay TD to be elected leader of a political party in the Dáil when he was elected leader of the Green Party in July 2024).
Ireland: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. Valiulis, Maryann Gialanella. Portrait of a revolutionary: General Richard Mulcahy and the founding of the Irish Free State. Laffan, Michael. The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916–1923. Comerford, Maire (1969). The First Dáil. Joe Clarke. Macardle, Dorothy.
The Democratic Programme was a declaration of economic and social principles adopted by the First Dáil at its first meeting on 21 January 1919. A text of the programme was first adopted in Irish and then in English. Its official Irish title was Clár Oibre Poblacánaighe.
The Declaration of Independence (Irish: Forógra na Saoirse, French: Déclaration d'indépendance) was a document adopted by Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary parliament of the Irish Republic, at its first meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 21 January 1919. It followed from the Sinn Féin election manifesto of December 1918