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An tSeachtain le Máirín Ní Ghadhra

Sinn Féin member 1920 Image Name: Sinn Féin member 1920 Description: Sinn Féin members posing for a photograph (circa 1920) Copyright: RTÉ Archives
Eamon de Valera, Kilkenny, Gen Election campaign 1918 Image Name: Eamon de Valera, Kilkenny, Gen Election campaign 1918 Description: Eamon de Valera, Kilkenny, Gen Election campaign 1918 Copyright: RTÉ Archives
Sinn Fein 6 Sraid Fhearchair Image Name: Sinn Fein 6 Sraid Fhearchair Description: Group taken at Sinn Fein Headquarters, 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin, October 1918. Back row: Sean Milroy and Robert Brennan Second row: Diarmuid Hegarty, Michael Nunan, Dan McCarthy, Michael Collins, Vera McDonnell, Desmond Fitzgerald, Anna Fitzsimmons Kelly, Brian Fagan and W. Murray. Front row: Joe Clarke, Barney Mellows, Jenny Mason and Seamus Kavanagh Copyright: Irish Military Archives. Permission for use in relation to An tSeachtain le Máirín Ní Ghadhra 16.12.2018 only.
Máirín Ní Ghadhra Image Name: Máirín Ní Ghadhra Description: Máirín Ní Ghadhra

Beidh an clár á chraoladh beo ó Uimhir 6 Sráid Fhearchair i mBaile Átha Cliath inniu, le comóradh a dhéanamh ar Olltoghchán 1918, olltoghchán cinniúnach i stair na tíre.   Cé gur seo Ceanncheathrú Chonradh na Gaeilge anois, ag an tráth sin ba é ceanncheathrú Shinn Féin é.  Is ann a eagraíodh feachtas toghchánaíochta an pháirtí i 1918, agus is ann a beartaíodh Dáil Éireann a ghairm go luath i 1919. Is ann, de réir chuntas Sheán T Uí Cheallaigh, a roghnaíodh an t-ainm Dáil Éireann, agus is ann a rinneadh cuid mhaith de na socraithe don chéad chruinniú den chéad Dáil.  Is í Máirín Ní Ghadhra a chuirfidh an clár i láthair inniu.

The programme will be broadcast live from 6 Harcourt Street in Dublin city centre today, to commemorate the General Election of 1918 which marked a key moment in the history of the state.  The building is now the headquarters of Conradh na Gaeilge, but prior to that it was the HQ for Sinn Féin.  It was there that the party’s election strategy for 1918 was conceived, and it was there that it was decided to convoke a parliament in Dublin and call it Dáil Éireann.  Many of the arrangements for the first meeting of Dáil Éireann were made in the building, and so it is a fitting venue for the commemorative programme today.  Máirín Ní Ghadhra presents.