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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.
[1] [2] The Dáil approved the First Dáil Loan on 19 June 1919. [3] This was for £500,000, half in an Internal Loan raised in Ireland, half in an External Loan raised in the United States ($1.25m at an exchange rate of $4.50 to the pound). [4] [5] Both were oversubscribed, and the External limit was increased in August 1919 to $25m. [6]
An Act to enable the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury of Ireland for the Time being, to sell, lease, convey, or dispose of the Parliament House in the City of Dublin, and all the Premises and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland. Citation: 42 Geo. 3. c. 87: Dates
James (or Seamus) Lennon (26 August 1880 – 13 August 1958) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician who sat in the First Dáil.He would later become the founder of the far-right Irish Monetary Reform Association, a political organisation that obtained some strength in the midlands.
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 ...
Initially, the term Feisire Dáil Eireann (F.D.E.) was mooted, [8] but 'Teachta' was used from the first meeting. [9] The term continued to be used after this First Dáil and was used to refer to later members of the Irish Republic 's single-chamber Dáil Éireann (or 'Assembly of Ireland') (1919–1922), members of the Free State Dáil (1922 ...
On his return to Ireland, Clarke acted as the courier for the First Dáil [4] and served as an usher at the first meeting of the First Dáil. [5] He was interned from January 1921. [6] Released in 1923, he acted as caretaker of the Sinn Féin headquarters on Harcourt Street, [4] and founded the Irish Book Bureau. [3]