1918 election: Sinn Féin did not win landslide or Dáil seats

However, it would be foolish not ... of both parts of Ireland for the next thirty or forty years emerge. One side points out that Sinn Fein won 73 seats out of 105, an overwhelming mandate....

Speaking about the research findings, Dr de Bromhead from Queen’s Management School said: “The research re-evaluates an old argument in Irish political history that the changes in voting rights in 1918 drove the Sinn Féin election victory.

The Irish component of the 1918 ... December 1918. It was the final United Kingdom general election to be held throughout Ireland, as the next election would happen following Irish independence. It is a key moment in modern Irish history, seeing the overwhelming defeat of the moderate nationalist Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP), which had dominated the Irish political landscape since the 1880s, and a landslide victory for the radical Sinn Féin ...

Sinn Féin demonstrated its new electoral capability in four by-election successes in 1917 in which Count Plunkett, Joseph McGuinness, de Valera and W. T. Cosgrave were each elected, although it lost three by-elections in early 1918 before winning two more with Patrick McCartan and Arthur Griffith. In one case there were unproven allegations of electoral fraud. The party had benefitted from a number of factors ...

Sinn Féin ("We Ourselves", often mistranslated as "Ourselves Alone") is the name of an Irish political party founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith. It became a focus for various forms of Irish nationalism, especially Irish republicanism. After the Easter Rising in 1916, it grew in membership, ...

In the general election of December 1918 Sinn Fein swept to an unprecedented and overwhelming triumph. In an electoral landslide the Irish Parliamentary Party, for so long the representative of Irish nationalism, was swept aside.

ensured the 1918 election represented a relatively clear cut choice between two different · versions of Irish nationalism – the incremental achievement of modest independence pursued · by the IPP and the radical and revolutionary republicanism offered by Sinn Féin.