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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.
The First Dáil was "a visible symbol of popular resistance and a source of legitimacy for fighting men in the guerrilla war that developed". [4] On the same day as the Dáil's first meeting, two officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed in an ambush in County Tipperary by members of the Irish Volunteers. The Volunteers seized ...
In May 1921, the Dáil passed a resolution declaring that elections to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland and the House of Commons of Southern Ireland would be used as the election for the Second Dáil. [21] The members of the 2nd Dáil first met on 16 August 1921. [22] The outgoing ministry did not resign immediately. On 26 August 1921 ...
The Seanad sits Leinster House in Dublin, the same building as Dáil Eireann (lower house). It holds 60 members, 11of them are nominated by the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and 49 are elected.
Defying the law, however, the Dáil continued to meet in secret. Members of the First Dáil taken on 9 April 1919 on the steps of the Mansion House in Dublin. Joseph O'Doherty is 4th from the left in the second row. O'Doherty was re-elected at the 1921 general election and opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty which led to the partition of Ireland. In ...
The 1981 general election to the 22nd Dáil saw the tally exceed ten for the first time, when six newly elected women brought the total to eleven. The arrival of nine newly elected women TDs in 1992 brought a total of 20 women to the 27th Dáil. 25 women were elected at the 2011 general election to the 31st Dáil.
First openly lesbian Oireachtas member – Katherine Zappone, independent senator from 2011 to 2016. First member of the Oireachtas in a recognised same-sex relationship – Katherine Zappone, who married Ann Louise Gilligan in British Columbia, Canada in 2003. This was recognised in Irish law as a civil partnership from 2010 and as marriage ...
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