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The first meeting of the Dáil and its declaration of independence was headline news in Ireland and abroad. [24] However, the press censorship that began during the First World War was continued by the Dublin Castle administration after the war. The Press Censor forbade all Irish newspapers from publishing the Dáil's declarations. [25]
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.
In its first general election, Sinn Féin won 73 [a] seats and viewed the result as a mandate for independence; in accordance with its declared policy of abstentionism, its 69 [a] MPs refused to attend the British House of Commons in Westminster, and established a revolutionary parliament known as Dáil Éireann. The other Irish MPs — 26 ...
The position of Ceann Comhairle was created on the first day of the Dáil on 21 January 1919, when it was first established as a breakaway revolutionary parliament. [6] The first Ceann Comhairle was Cathal Brugha, who served for only one day, presiding over the Dáil's first meeting, before leaving the post to become President of Dáil Éireann.
From the 1930s to the 1960s most women TDs were widows or other relatives of deceased TDs, [33] and the 4.7% ratio achieved in 1921 was not equalled again until the 1981 general election returned 11 women, who comprised 6.6% of the 22nd Dáil. [34] Niamh Bhreathnach, the first woman to be appointed as minister at the start of her first Dáil term
On 7 January 1922, in the Anglo-Irish Treaty Dáil vote, TDs constituting the 2nd Dáil divided 64–57 (4 not voting) in favour of the Treaty. Those voting were those who were elected for Sinn Féin, which were 125, as five were elected for constituencies in both Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
On 28 April 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, was received on the floor of the Dáil; he did not make a speech. [42]On 21 January 2019, a programme of events in the Mansion House, to mark the centenary of the First Dáil, included an address by President Michael D. Higgins [43] [44] and a joint sitting of the 32nd Dáil and 25th Seanad; [45] [43] however, the address was not ...
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 .