Definition of dail eireann Dail eireann
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dail eireann
The principal chamber of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament).
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Dáil Éireann is the lower house of the parliament of Ireland.
It is elected by all Irish citizens of voting age (which is now 18). Members of Dáil Éireann are called TDs, which stands for "Teachta Dala".
First Dáil.
The First Dáil was elected at the British General Election of 1918. The Sinn Féin people who were elected did not go to the House of Commons. Instead they stayed in Dublin and set up the First Dáil.
The First Dáil passed the Declaration of Independence of the Irish Republic, a Constitution and set up a government.
The first British woman MP was Countess Markiewicz. Because she was a Sinn Féiner she went to the first Dáil Éireann instead. That is why many people think Lady Astor was Britain's first woman MP.
Second Dáil.
In 1922, during the War of Independence, the British passed the Government of Ireland Act. The act set up two parliaments, one for Northern Ireland and one for Southern Ireland. There was no election in Southern Ireland because only Sinn Féin candidates stood. They did not meet as the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. Instead they, and the only Sinn Feiner elected only in Northern Ireland met as the Second Dáil.
On the first day of the Second Dáil Éamon de Valera, President of the Irish Republic, said there would be no need to fight or negotiate with Britain if the British prime minister remembered that he had said De Valera said that if Poland had the right to its own government, so did Ireland.
The Second Dáil ratified (that is, confirmed) th
