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6 days ago · William Thomas Cosgrave (born June 5, 1880, Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 16, 1965, Dublin) was an Irish statesman, who was the first president of the Executive Council (prime minister; 1922–32) of the Irish Free State. At an early age, Cosgrave was attracted to the Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin. He became a member of the Dublin Corporation ...
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May 22, 2024 · W.T. Cosgrave was born in Dublin in 1880. His father was a publican and grocer at 174 James Street. W.T. grew up in a reasonably comfortable lower middle class background in the last two decades of the 19th. century. He was educated by the Christian Brothers and left school at 16 to work in his father’s business.
May 25, 2024 · All of this emphasises the seemingly remarkable nature of an announcement made by W. T. Cosgrave, the new Minister for Local Government. At a meeting of Dublin Corporation in late January, Cosgrave, a long-standing alderman on the Corporation, stated that ‘he had received sympathetic consideration for a suggestion he made to the Provisional ...
May 26, 2024 · On March 7, 1924, a representative of the IRAO hands a demand to end demobilisation to W. T. Cosgrave. The ultimatum is signed by senior Army officers, Major-General Liam Tobin and Colonel Charles Dalton. Tobin knows his own position is to be scrapped in the demobilisation. Frank Thornton and Tom Cullen are also involved.
May 14, 2024 · From a political perspective, Professor Gosse outlines how Fine Gael leader W.T. Cosgrave was alone in linking Irish and Black freedom struggles. “Cosgrave’s acknowledging Black humanity was exceptional”, says Professor Gosse.
2 days ago · (The other thirty senators had been nominated to either six or twelve year terms by W.T. Cosgrave, the President of the Executive Council, ie prime minister.) Four vacancies had been filled by co-option in the first three years of the Senate's existence; and in 1925 the fifteen original three-year Senators and the four co-optees now had to run ...
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May 17, 2024 · Cosgrave, W. T. W. T. Cosgrave: 6 December 1922: 9 March 1932: 5 terms – Cumann na nGaedheal: 2. Valera, Éamon de Éamon de Valera: 9 March 1932 [nb 4] 18 February 1948: 6 terms [nb 5] 1st time: Fianna Fáil: 3. Costello, John A. John A. Costello
