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The first Dáil has met today in the Mansion House in Dublin. The Declaration of Independence was  read in Irish (by Cathal Brugha) , English (by Edmund Duggan) and in French ( by George Gavan Duffy) :- Whereas the Irish people is by right a free people: And Whereas for seven hundred years the Irish people has never ceased to repudiate and has repeatedly protested in arms against foreign usurpation: And Whereas English rule in this country is, and always has been, based upon force and fraud and maintained by military occupation against the declared will of the people: And Whereas the Irish Republic wasRead More →