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Arthur Griffith was born on 31 March, 1871 in Dublin, Ireland, is an Irish politician and writer, founder of Sinn Féin (1871–1922). Discover Arthur Griffith's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?

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Occupation miscellaneous
Age 51 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 31 March, 1871
Birthday 31 March
Birthplace Dublin, Ireland
Date of death 1922
Died Place Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Ireland

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His wife is Maud Sheehan (m. 1910)

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1719

His great-great-grandfather, William Griffith of Drws-y-coed Uchaf, Rhyd-ddu, Caernarvonshire (1719-1782), was a farmer and supporter of the Moravian Church cause.

1789

His great grandfather, Griffith Griffith (b. 1789), emigrated first to the United States and then to Ireland, where some of his sisters had settled in Dublin among the Moravian community there.

A Roman Catholic, Griffith was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers.

He worked for a time as a printer before joining the Gaelic League, which was aimed at promoting the restoration of the Irish language.

1800

In his writings, Griffith declared that the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1800 was illegal and that, consequently, the Anglo-Irish dual monarchy that existed under Grattan's Parliament and the so-called Constitution of 1782 were still in effect.

1871

Arthur Joseph Griffith (Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha; 31 March 1871 – 12 August 1922) was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin.

Arthur Joseph Griffith was born at 61 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin on 31 March 1871, of distant Welsh lineage.

1890

His father had been a printer on The Nation newspaper — Griffith was one of several employees locked out in the early 1890s due to a dispute with a new owner of the paper.

The young Griffith was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB).

He initially supported Parnell's political views, but then decided that Parnell's political outlook was not what he thought was best for Ireland.

1896

Griffith visited South Africa from 1896 to 1898.

In South Africa, Griffith supported the Boers in their campaign against British expansionism and was a supporter of Paul Kruger.

1899

After a short spell in South Africa, Griffith founded and edited the Irish nationalist newspaper The United Irishman in 1899.

In 1899, on returning to Dublin, Griffith co-founded the weekly United Irishman newspaper with his associate William Rooney, who died in 1901.

1900

In September 1900, he established an organisation called Cumann na nGaedheal ("Society of the Gaels"), to unite advanced nationalist and separatist groups and clubs.

1903

In 1903, he set up the National Council, to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII and his consort Alexandra of Denmark.

1904

In 1904, he wrote The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland, which advocated the withdrawal of Irish members from the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the setting up of the institutions of government at home in Ireland, a policy that became known as Sinn Féin (ourselves).

1905

On 28 November 1905, he presented "The Sinn Féin Policy" at the first annual convention of his organisation, the National Council; the occasion is marked as the founding date of the Sinn Féin party.

Most historians opt for 28 November 1905 as a founding date because it was on this date that Griffith first presented his 'Sinn Féin Policy'.

1906

In 1906, after the United Irishman journal collapsed because of a libel suit, Griffith re-founded it under the title Sinn Féin.

1907

In 1907, that organisation merged with the Sinn Féin League, which itself had been formed from an amalgamation of Cumann na nGaedheal and the Dungannon Clubs, to form what would become Sinn Féin.

1909

It briefly became a daily in 1909 and survived until its suppression by the British government in 1914, after which Griffith became editor of the new nationalist journal, Nationality.

1910

On 24 November 1910, Griffith married his fiancée, Maud Sheehan, after a six-year engagement; they had a son and a daughter.

Griffith's fierce criticism of the Irish Parliamentary Party's alliance with the British Liberal Party was heavily influenced by the anti-Liberal rhetoric of Young Irelander John Mitchel.

Griffith supported the Limerick boycott, advocating shunning Jewish-owned businesses in the city.

Griffith also supported movements seeking national independence from the British Empire in Egypt and India, and wrote a highly-critical description of the British government action at Matabele.

He opposed the policies of James Larkin, but worked with James Connolly, who was a nationalist as well as a socialist.

1911

Griffith took over as president of Sinn Féin in 1911, but at that time the organisation was still small.

1916

Griffith was arrested following the Easter Rising of 1916, despite not having taken any part in it.

On his release, he worked to build up Sinn Féin, which won a string of by-election victories.

1917

At the party's Ardfheis (annual convention) in October 1917, Sinn Féin became an unambiguously republican party, and Griffith resigned the presidency in favour of the 1916 leader Éamon de Valera, becoming vice-president instead.

1918

Griffith was elected as an MP for East Cavan in a by-election in June 1918, and re-elected in the 1918 general election, when Sinn Féin won a huge electoral victory over the Irish Parliamentary Party and, refusing to take their seats at Westminster, set up their own constituent assembly, Dáil Éireann.

1919

In the Dáil, Griffith served as Minister for Home Affairs from 1919 to 1921, and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1921 to 1922.

1921

He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and served as the president of Dáil Éireann from January 1922 until his death later in August.

In September 1921, he was appointed chairman of the Irish delegation to negotiate a treaty with the British government.

After months of negotiations, he and the other four delegates signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which created the Irish Free State, but not as a republic.

This led to a split in the Dáil.

After the Treaty was narrowly approved by the Dáil, de Valera resigned as president and Griffith was elected in his place.

The split led to the Irish Civil War.

1922

Griffith died suddenly in August 1922, two months after the outbreak of that war.