Liam de Róiste

Liam de Róiste (1882 – 15 May 1969) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, diarist and Gaelic scholar. [cite web|url=http://www.waterfordcountymuseum.org/exhibit/web/Display/article/181/|title=The First World War And Ireland|work=Waterford County Museum|accessdate=2008-02-19]

He was a member of the Irish Volunteers and fought in the Easter Rising in 1916 with the Cork City Battlion. [cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bwickham/corkbatt.htm|title=Cork City Battalion Roster|work=Wickham & McKiernan genealogy website|accessdate=2008-02-19] He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for the Cork City constituency in the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann, though de Róiste did not attend. [cite web |url=http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.F.O.191901210004.html|title=Roll call of the first sitting of the First Dáil|work=Dáil Éireann Historical Debates|accessdate=2008-02-19] He was re-elected unopposed in the 1921 elections for the Cork Borough constituency. He supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted in favour of it. He was again re-elected in the 1922 general election as a member of Pro-Treaty Sinn Féin. He did not stand in the 1923 general election but stood unsuccessfully as a Cumann na nGaedhael candidate in the June 1927 general election.

References

*Oireachtas-database |1=http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=1&MemberID=299&ConstID=31

External links

* [http://www.electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=1117 Liam de Róiste's electoral history] (ElectionsIreland.org)