First Irish Parliament Sample Clauses

First Irish Parliament. (Dail) 1919; War of Independence (1919-1921); Partition 1921; Civil War (June 1922-May 1923) At the end of the WWI, general elections were held in 1918 in Ireland (and Britain) and Sinn Fein (SF), which was founded in 1905 by Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx and which from 1920s took on the role of the political arm of Irish republicanism (Xxx Xxxxxxx, 2013, p. 199), won 73 of the 105 Irish seats at Westminster replacing the moderate nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party as the voice of the Irish electorate in all provinces except Ulster. Most of SF deputies were in prison and the rest did not attend Westminster, instead a new parliament (Dail) opened in the Mansion House in Dublin on 21 January 1919; the Proclamation of the Republic (1916) was reaffirmed, and in an attempt to win international recognition and assert its authority in Ireland, a Declaration of Independence (Parliamentary Debates: Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament) 1919, 2024) and a Message to the Free Nations of the World (Parliamentary Debates, Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament), 2024) calling for support for the new republic was adopted. The new Dail (Lower House of the Irish Parliament) and the IRA (Irish Republican Army/military wing of SF), which was considered as the continuation of Irish Volunteers beginning from 1916, were declared illegal by the British and forced underground. Anglo-Irish War/the War of Independence, which began in 1919 and was fought by the republicans, mainly IRA, against British forces, ended with the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921. While the war of independence was going on, the partition of Ireland was already executed with the 1920 Government of Ireland Act, according to which two self-governing units were created: twenty-six counties of southern Ireland and the six counties of north-east Ireland (Northern Ireland). This Act was introduced by Xxxxx Xxxxxx after the election of 73 SF MPs and their refusal to sit in Westminster. The Dail voted for the adoption of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty by a small margin with 64 votes to 57 on 7 January 1922. Following the general election in Ireland in June 1922, which was won by those in favour of the Treaty, the Civil War (June 1922 - May 1923) broke out between those who were against the Treaty, which included a republican minority and the majority of IRA combatants, and those who were in favour of the Treaty (XxXxxxx, 2016, p.118). On 6 December 1922, the Irish Free State came into being, having dominion status withi...
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