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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The members of the First Dáil, known as Teachtaí Dála (TDs), were the 101Template:Efn Members of Parliament (MPs) returned from constituencies in Ireland at the 1918 United Kingdom general election. In its first general election, Sinn Féin won 73Template:Efn seats and viewed the result as a mandate for independence; in accordance with its declared policy of abstentionism, its 69Template:Efn 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 unionists and sixTemplate:Efn from the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) — sat at Westminster and for the most part ignored the invitation to attend the Dáil. Thomas Harbison, IPP MP for North East Tyrone, did acknowledge the invitation, but "stated he should decline for obvious reasons".[1] The Dáil met for the first time on 21 January 1919 in Mansion House in Dublin. Only 27 members attended; most of the other Sinn Féin TDs were imprisoned by the British authorities, or in hiding under threat of arrest. All 101 MPs were considered TDs, and their names were called out on the roll of membership, though there was some laughter when Irish Unionist Alliance leader Edward Carson was described as Script error: No such module "Lang". ("absent").[2] The database of members of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) includes for the First Dáil only those elected for Sinn Féin.[3]

Composition of the 1st Dáil

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Total 105

Government party denoted with bullet (Template:Colorbull).

Members by constituency

Constituency Name Portrait Party affiliation Assumed office
Start of Dáil term End of Dáil term
Antrim East Robert McCalmont File:Robert McCalmount.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist Resigned in 1919 Abstained
George Hanna File:George Boyle Hanna.jpg Elected in 1919 by-election
as Independent Unionist 		style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Antrim Mid Hugh O'Neill File:Hugo O'Neil, 1905 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Antrim North Peter Kerr-Smiley File:Peter Kerr-Smiley (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Antrim South Charles Craig File:Charles Curtis Craig.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Armagh Mid James Lonsdale style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Armagh North William Allen File:William Allen - Northern Irish politician.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Armagh South Patrick Donnelly File:Patrick Donnelly.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Parliamentary style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nationalist Abstained
Belfast Cromac William Arthur Lindsay style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast Duncairn Edward Carson File:Portrait of Edward Carson, Baron Carson.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast Falls Joseph Devlin File:Joe Devlin.JPG style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Parliamentary style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nationalist Abstained
Belfast Ormeau Thomas Moles File:Thomas Moles.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast Pottinger Herbert Dixon File:Herbert Dixon (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast St Anne's Thomas Henry Burn File:Thomas Henry Burn (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Labour Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast Shankill Samuel McGuffin style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Labour Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast Victoria Thompson Donald File:Thompson Donald (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Labour Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Belfast Woodvale Robert Lynn File:R. J. Lynn.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
County Carlow James Lennon File:James (Seamus) Lennon, circa 1920s.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 6 August 1920
Cavan East Arthur GriffithTemplate:Efn File:Arthur Griffith.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" rowspan=2 | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Tyrone North West
Cavan West Paul Galligan File:Peter Paul Galligan.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Clare East Éamon de ValeraTemplate:Efn File:De Valera LCCN2016822004 (headshot).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" rowspan=2 | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Mayo East
Clare West Brian O'Higgins File:Banba.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Cork City Liam de Róiste style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
J. J. WalshTemplate:Efn File:J. J. Walsh.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Cork East David Kent File:David Kent (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 9 May 1919
Cork Mid Terence MacSwiney File:Terence MacSwiney circle.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin Died in 1920 1 April 1919
Cork North Patrick O'Keeffe style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Cork North East Thomas Hunter File:Thomas Hunter (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 9 May 1919
Cork South Michael Collins File:Michael Collins.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Cork South East Diarmuid Lynch File:Diarmuid Lynch.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin Resigned in 1920 Never sat in Dáil
Cork West Seán HayesTemplate:Efn File:Sean Hayes (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Donegal East Edward Kelly File:Edward Kelly.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Parliamentary Abstained
Donegal North Joseph O'DohertyTemplate:Efn File:Joseph O'Doherty.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Donegal South Peter WardTemplate:Efn File:Peter Ward, 22 Jan 1919 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Donegal West Joseph SweeneyTemplate:Efn File:Joseph Sweeney, 22 Jan 1919 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Down East David Reid style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Down Mid James Craig File:James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Down North Thomas Watters Brown style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Down South Jeremiah McVeagh File:Jeremiah MacVeagh. 1898.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Parliamentary style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nationalist Abstained
Down West Daniel M. Wilson style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Dublin Clontarf Richard MulcahyTemplate:Efn File:Gen. Richard Mulcahy cropped.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Dublin College Green Seán T. O'KellyTemplate:Efn File:O Ceallaigh.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Dublin Harbour Philip ShanahanTemplate:Efn File:Phillip Shanahan, 22 Jan 1919 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Dublin North Frank Lawless File:Frank J. Lawless.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Dublin Pembroke Desmond FitzGerald File:Desmond Fitzgerald (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Dublin Rathmines Maurice Dockrell File:Maurice Dockrell.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Unionist Anti-Partition League Abstained
Dublin South George Gavan DuffyTemplate:Efn File:George Gavan Duffy.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Dublin St James's Joseph McGrath File:Joseph McGrath 1922.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Dublin St Michan's Michael StainesTemplate:Efn File:Michael Staines 1918 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Dublin St Patrick's Constance Markievicz File:Countess Constance Markiewicz-1.1.2 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Dublin St Stephen's Green Thomas KellyTemplate:Efn File:Alderman Kelly.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Dublin University Arthur Samuels style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist Resigned in 1919 Abstained
Robert Woods File:Robert Woods.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Independent Unionist Abstained
William Jellett Elected in 1919 by-election
as Irish Unionist 		style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Unionist Anti-Partition League Abstained
Fermanagh North Edward Archdale File:Sir Edward Mervyn Archdale.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Fermanagh South Seán O'Mahony File:Seán O'Mahony, circa 1921 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Galway Connemara Pádraic Ó MáilleTemplate:Efn File:Pádraic Ó Máille, circa 1922.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Galway East Liam MellowsTemplate:Efn File:Liam Mellows Portrait.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Sinn Féin 21 January 1921
Meath North
Galway North Bryan Cusack File:Bryan Cusack (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Galway South Frank Fahy File:Frank Fahy 1933 (cropped).png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Kerry East Piaras BéaslaíTemplate:Efn File:Piaras Béaslaí, 1923 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Kerry North James Crowley style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 17 June 1919
Kerry South Fionán Lynch style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 29 June 1920
Kerry West Austin Stack File:Austin Stack, circa 1920s (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin Never sat in 1st Dáil
Kildare North Domhnall Ua BuachallaTemplate:Efn File:Domhnall Ua Buachalla circa 1916.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Kildare South Art O'Connor File:Art O'Connor.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Kilkenny North W. T. Cosgrave File:WT Cosgrave, circa 1922 (headshot).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Kilkenny South James O'Mara File:James O'Mara (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
King's County Patrick McCartan File:Patrick McCartan.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin Never sat in 1st Dáil
Leitrim James Dolan File:Seamus-O-Dolain-TD-J-Dolan.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Limerick City Michael Colivet File:Michael Colivet, circa 1920s.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Limerick East Richard Hayes File:Richard Hayes, circa 1920s.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Limerick West Con CollinsTemplate:Efn File:Con Collins.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Londonderry City Eoin MacNeillTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn File:Eoin MacNeill Portrait.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" rowspan=2| Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
National University
Londonderry North Hugh Anderson style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist Resigned in 1919 Abstained
Hugh T. Barrie Elected in 1919 by-election
as Irish Unionist 		style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Londonderry South Denis Henry File:Denis Henry (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Longford Joseph McGuinness File:Joseph McGuiness (38537799191).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Louth John J. O'KellyTemplate:Efn File:JJ O'Kelly, circa 1918 to 1931.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Mayo North John CrowleyTemplate:Efn File:Dr John Crowley TD.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Mayo South William Sears File:Liam-Mac-Searrac-TD-William-Seers.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 19 August 1919
Mayo West Joseph MacBride File:Joseph MacBride.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 17 June 1919
Meath South Eamonn DugganTemplate:Efn File:Eamonn Duggan.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Monaghan North Ernest Blythe File:Ernest Blythe portrait.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Monaghan South Seán MacEntee File:Seán MacEntee portrait.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Queen's County Kevin O'HigginsTemplate:Efn File:Kevin O'Higgins, Feb 1922.png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Roscommon North George Noble PlunkettTemplate:Efn File:George Noble Plunkett, circa 1915.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Roscommon South Harry Boland File:Harry Boland Portrait.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Queen's University of Belfast William Whitla File:Sir William Whitla Wellcome M0014776.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Sligo North J. J. Clancy style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 29 June 1920
Sligo South Alexander McCabe File:Alexander McCabe (1922).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Tipperary East Pierce McCan style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin Died in 1919 Never sat in Dáil
Tipperary Mid Séamus BurkeTemplate:Efn File:Seumas Burke LCCN2014716858.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Tipperary North Joseph MacDonagh File:Joseph MacDonagh (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Tipperary South P. J. MoloneyTemplate:Efn File:P. J. Moloney, 22 Jan 1919 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Tyrone North East Thomas Harbison style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Parliamentary style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nationalist Abstained
Tyrone South William Coote style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Unionist style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Ulster Unionist Abstained
Waterford City William Redmond File:William Archer Redmond.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Irish Parliamentary Abstained
Waterford County Cathal BrughaTemplate:Efn File:Cathalbrugha.JPG style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Westmeath Laurence Ginnell File:Laurence Ginnell.jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Wexford North Roger SweetmanTemplate:Efn File:Roger Sweetman, 22 Jan 1919 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin Resigned in 1921 21 January 1919
Wexford South James RyanTemplate:Efn File:Dr James Ryan 1933 (cropped).png style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
Wicklow East Seán Etchingham File:Sean Etchingham (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 1 April 1919
Wicklow West Robert BartonTemplate:Efn File:Robert Barton, 1921 (cropped).jpg style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Sinn Féin 21 January 1919
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Photograph of members of the First Dáil of the Irish Republic, taken on the steps of the Mansion House in Dublin on 9 April 1919.

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Vacancies

When the Sinn Féin executive met on 1 January 1919 to plan for the Dáil's inaugural meeting, it considered appointing substitutes for the imprisoned Sinn Féin TDs who would be unable to attend, but decided against this.[4] When Pierce McCan died on 6 March 1919, his East Tipperary seat was left vacant at Westminster. In April 1919 a Dáil committee considering how to fill the vacancy considered allowing nomination by the Labour Party (which had stood aside in the 1918 election to avoid splitting the nationalist vote)[5] before recommending that the Sinn Féin constituency organisation should nominate.[6] However, in June 1919 the Dáil decided that "it was due to the memory of the late Pierce McCann that his place should not be filled at present".[7] Later vacancies were also left unfilled; when Diarmuid Lynch resigned his seat in 1920, Arthur Griffith said "as the letter of resignation was addressed to the people of South-East Cork, the next step in the matter lay with the South-East Cork Executive of Sinn Fein".[8]

Four TDs represented two separate constituencies: Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Eoin MacNeill and Liam Mellowes. Ordinarily, this would prompt them to choose one constituency to represent, and to move a writ for a by-election in the other constituency.

Constituency Outgoing TD Party Reason for vacancy Date of vacancy Ref
Tipperary East Pierce McCan
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Death in prison 6 March 1919 [4]
Cork South East Diarmuid Lynch
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Resignation 6 August 1920 [8]
Cork Mid Terence MacSwiney
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Death from hunger strike 25 October 1920 [4]
North Wexford Roger Sweetman
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Resignation 27 January 1921 [9]

By-elections

The following Westminster by-elections to Irish seats were filled by Unionists who sat at Westminster.

Winner Party Constituency Date Outgoing Party Reason for vacancy Notes
Hugh T. Barrie
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North Londonderry 4 March 1919 Hugh Anderson
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Resignation The only by-election contested by Sinn Féin, Patrick McGilligan losing.[10]
George Hanna
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East Antrim 27 May 1919 Robert McCalmont
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Appointed commander of the Irish Guards
William Jellett
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Dublin University 28 July 1919 Arthur Samuels
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Appointed to the High Court of Justice in Ireland

See also

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