Members of the 1st Dáil

This is a list of the 105 MPs who were elected for Irish seats at the 1918 United Kingdom general election. Sinn Féin emerged as the largest party, in their first general election. They adopted a policy of abstention from the House of British House of Commons in Westminster. Instead they took their election as a mandate for independence and established a revolutionary parliament known as Dáil Éireann, with its members known as Teachtaí Dála or TDs. It met for the first time on 21 January 1919 in Mansion House in Dublin. The majority of Sinn Féin's MPs were imprisoned at the time so only 27 elected representatives attended the initial meeting of the First Dáil. The First Dáil lasted 892 days. Those elected for the remaining Irish seats, from the Irish Parliamentary Party and the Irish Unionist Party, for the most part ignored the invitation to attend the First Dáil. Thomas Harbison, elected for the Irish Parliamentary Party for North East Tyrone, did acknowledge the invitation, but "stated he should decline for obvious reasons".[1]

1st Dáil Éireann
2nd Dáil →
Overview
Legislative body	Dáil Éireann
Jurisdiction	Irish Republic
Meeting place	Mansion House UCD (Earlsfort Terrace)
Term	21 January 1919 – 10 May 1921
Election	1918 general election
Government	Government of the 1st Dáil
Members	105
Ceann Comhairle	Seán T. O'Kelly — Count Plunkett until 22 January 1919 — Cathal Brugha until 22 January 1919
President of Dáil Éireann	Éamon de Valera — Cathal Brugha until 1 April 1919

Under this Irish republican theory, all 105 MPs were members of the Dáil, and their names were called out on the roll of membership. The database of Oireachtas members includes only those elected for Sinn Féin.[2] For clarity on the representation of constituencies, they are listed here in a single list.

Members of the First Dáil of the Irish Republic, taken on the steps of the Mansion House in Dublin after their first meeting on 21 January 1919, with caption indicating their names in the Irish language. Note that some members were not present because they were either in prison or in danger of arrest.