Abstract is: The 1918 Irish general election was the part of the 1918 United Kingdom general election which took place in Ireland. It is now seen as a key moment in modern Irish history because it saw the overwhelming defeat of the moderate nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), which had dominated the Irish political landscape since the 1880s, and a landslide victory for the radical Sinn Féin party. Sinn Féin had never previously stood in a general election, but had won six seats in by-elections in 1917–18. The party had vowed in its manifesto to establish an independent Irish Republic. In Ulster, however, the Unionist Party was the most successful party. The election was held in the aftermath of the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Conscription Crisis. It was the first general election to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918. It was thus the first election in which women over the age of 30, and all men over the age of 21, could vote. Previously, all women and most working-class men had been excluded from voting. In the aftermath of the elections, Sinn Féin's elected members refused to attend the British Parliament in Westminster (London), and instead formed a parliament in Dublin, the First Dáil Éireann ("Assembly of Ireland"), which declared Irish independence as a republic. The Irish War of Independence was conducted under this revolutionary government which sought international recognition, and set about the process of state-building. The next election was part of 1921 Irish elections.
Irish general election | Q22266583 |
P17 | country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Q174193 |
P541 | office contested | Teachta Dála | Q654291 |
P585 | point in time | 1918-12-14 |
Q98273260 | Alexander Fisher |
Q5076603 | Charles Curtis Craig |
Q98263127 | Daniel Dumigan |
Q6180907 | Jeremiah McVeagh |
Q98274575 | John Alexander Davidson |
Q98273301 | John Alexander Weir Johnston |
Q23618673 | Kevin O'Shiel |
Q29135433 | Patrick McCarry |
Q7175169 | Peter Kerr-Smiley |
Q7347467 | Robert McCalmont |
Q7794931 | Thomas Watters Brown |
Q173347 | Éamon de Valera |
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