IRISH POLLS.
SOUTH PARLIAMENT.
SINN FEINERS’ SUCCESS. '
PROMINENT LEADERS ELECTED.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 14. The election of the Southern Irish Parliament is completed, and 125 Sinn Feiners have been returned unopposed, including Messrs. Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, De Valera, Desmond Fitzgerald, the Countess Markievicz, Mrs. O’Callaghan, widow of the exMayor of Limerick, Mary MeSweeney, sister of the late Lord Mayor of Cork, Mesdames Clarke and Place, widows of executed rebels. All are pledged not to take the oath of allegiance or to work the Home Rule Act. About one-third are in gaol and most of the others on the run, and a few with a heavy price on their heads. It ifi expected the Sinn Feiners and the Nationalists will gain 17 seats in the Northern Parliament, but will not sit.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1921, Page 5
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133IRISH POLLS. Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1921, Page 5
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