The Sinn Fein MPs not incarcerated in the government met in the Mansion House in Dublin today. Count Plunkett informed the gathering that invitations had been sent to all Irish-elected MPs to assemble as Dáil Eireann. So far, only one response had been received – a Decline from Sir Robert Woods (Independent Unionist MP for Dublin University). It has agreed that the first meeting of Dáil Eireann should take place as soon as possible, and that only urgent business would be dealt with (as 35 Sinn Fein MPs are currently in jail or in exile)
It was also agreed to recommend that the following members be nominated as Ireland’s delegates to the Paris Peace Conference :- Eamonn De Valera, Arthur Griffiths and Count Plunkett.

The following MPS were present :-

Padraic O’Maille (Galway Connemara),James Joseph Walsh & Liam de Roiste (both of Cork city), Michael Collins (Cork South), Sean Hayes (Cork South), Eoin McNeill (National University of Ireland), Philip Shanahan (Dublin Harbour), Conor Collins (Limerick West), Piaras Beaslai (Kerry East), Sean T. O’Kelly (Dublin College Green),Patrick McCartan (King’s County),Edmund Duggan (Meath South),Kevin O’Higgins (Queen’s County), Count George Plunkett (Roscommon North), Harry Boland (Roscommon South), Michael Staines (Dublin St. Michan’s), Thomas Kelly (Dublin St. Stephen’s Green), Seamus Burke (Mid Tipperary), Patrick Moloney (Tipperary South), Roger Sweetman (Wexford North) and Robert Barton (Wicklow West).