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Éamon de Valera, president of Dáil Eireann, was in the US from June 1919 to December 1920 to secure financial support for and diplomatic recognition of the new Irish republic. By March...
Ireland & the 1920 U.S. presidential election: Part 1 “The Irish republic leaders were so surprised, or angry, or both, that they refused to talk last night.” 1 By early June 1920, Éamon de Valera had spent nearly a year traveling across America to raise money and political support for the fledgling Irish republic.
Of the $5,500,000 raised by supporters of the Irish Republic in the United States in 1919–20, the Dublin parliament (Dáil Éireann) voted in June 1920 to spend $500,000 on the American presidential election. How this money was spent remains unclear.
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general election in 1910. All men over twenty-one . and women over thirty now had the right to vote. The number of voters in Ireland had almost trebled (1,931,588 in 1918 compared to 698,098 in 1910),
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The two local elections of January and June 1920 provide a useful barometer of public opinion at the time in Ireland. It was only in January 1920 that the IRA campaign in the War of Independence ...
No one may serve as President for more than two terms. Spending limits and donations. The spending limits in a Presidential election were reduced in 2011. The limit is €750,000 (was €1.3 million) and the amount a candidate can be reimbursed from the State is €200,000 (was €260,000).
Belfast on the brink in 1920. March 20th: Sinn Féin's lord mayor of Cork, Tomás Mac Curtain, is shot dead in his home on Thomas Davis Street, Blackpool, by a gang suspected to be rogue Royal ...
