what events happened in ireland in 1917
Events 25.5.1917?
1917-20: The road to partition
Sinn Fein election success Starting in January 1917, a grouping of nationalists under the name Sinn Fein sweeps four by-elections - Roscommon, South Longford, East Clare and Kilkenny City - against the official Irish Parliamentary Party.
The East Clare poll is won by future Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera.
In July, he was among the remaining prisoners of the Easter Rising who had all been released to a tumultuous welcome in Dublin.
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