Now he was a de facto diplomat, and with the title ‘Delegate of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic’, was one of the first members of what would become the Irish diplomatic service.

The Dáil launched three successful bond issues in the course of the war of independence: the National Loan in Ireland in 1919-20 and the First and Second External Loans in the US in 1920 and 1921.

Dáil Éireann is the lower house and principal chamber of the Oireachtas, which also includes the president of Ireland and a senate called Seanad Éireann. It consists of 174 members, each known ...

Nothing was left to chance by the newly appointed minister of finance to ensure the success of the first Dáil loan and to fund the counter-state government that had been set up when the first ...

Fianna Fail is Ireland’s Republican Party founded on March 23 1926. It was the largest party in Dail Eireann from 1932 until it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history ...