A SERIES of events organised by Sinn Féin was held on Wednesday, 21 January, in the historic Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of An Chéad Dáil Éireann. The keynote speaker on the evening was Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, MP, MLA. Below we reprint his address. Free article

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THE Irish Government held an official commemoration to mark the 90th anniversary of the convening of the First Dáil in Dublin's Mansion House with a special sitting of the Dáil on Tuesday of this week, the day before the actual anniversary. The Government's error in failing to book the Mansion House for the date itself, 21 January - Sinn Féin had booked the Mansion House - was compounded by its spurning of an offer from Sinn Féin to accommodate a truly representative all-Ireland event - as the First Dáil was! Free article