Archives for January 1922

Arthur Griffith was elected president in 1922. The founder of Sinn Fein was elected president of the newly formed Irish Free State. Griffin was born in Dublin on January March 13, 1972. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913, although he did not take part in the Easter Rising. He went on to become one of the chief Treaty negotiators and was head of the Irish delegation which … [Read more...] about January 10, 1922