Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith ( Irish: Ó type Gríofa; born March 31, 1872 in Dublin, † August 12, 1922 ) was an Irish politician.

Griffith founded in 1905 by the merger of various Irish- patriotic associations the party Sinn Féin. His idea was to form from the Kingdom of Great Britain an Anglo- Irish Kingdom with a common monarch, but separate governments, as was then in Austria - Hungary the case.

In 1918 he was elected as an MP in the British Parliament. Like other Sinn Féin politician, however, he did not take a seat, but founded with them the - not recognized - Irish Parliament, known as the First Dáil.

Griffith led the 1921 negotiations with Britain over the Free State Act. From January to August 1922, he was President of the Irish Free State.

He died in 1922 of heart failure.

In 1959 a biography of Griffith's Padraic Colum under the title of Ourselves Alone. Colum Griffith was about 55 years previously encountered, as this was the editor of the 1899 co-founded Griffith The United Irishman, in which Colum published his first poems.

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