Arthur griffith biography

          Arthur Joseph Griffith was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin.

        1. Arthur Griffith was a veracious journalist and proponent of economic nationalism who founded Sinn Féin, served as President of Dáil Éireann, and was chairman of.
        2. Arthur Joseph Griffith was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin.
        3. Arthur Griffith was a journalist and Irish nationalist, principal founder of the powerful Sinn Féin (“We Ourselves” or “Ourselves Alone”).
        4. Griffith, Arthur Joseph (–), journalist and politician, was born 31 March in Dublin into a working-class family, son of Arthur Charles Griffith.

          5. Arthur Joseph Griffith was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin....

          Arthur Griffith

          Arthur Griffith (Irish: Art Ó Gríobhtha; March 31, 1871 – August 12, 1922) was the founder of Sinn Fein, which became the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

          Griffith's opposition to British domination was based on his rejection of the legality of the Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1800, despite the treaty having been signed voluntarily between the two kingdoms. Elected to the parliament in 1918, he was also responsible for the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty setting up the Irish Free State.[1]

          Antisemitism

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          Despite Griffith's role in Ireland's achievement of independence, he was known for his antisemitism[2] As an editor of the United Irishman, Griffith took an "Anti-Dreyfusard" line, writing in 1899 to defend the conviction of "the Jew traitor" Dreyfus and accuse the Dublin press of being "almost all Jew rags" and decrying[3]

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