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Arthur Griffith

1871 - 1922

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Arthur Joseph Griffith (Irish: Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha or Art Ó Gríofa; 31 March 1871 – 12 August 1922) was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin. He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and served as the president of Dáil Éireann from January 1922 until his death later in August. After a short spell in South Africa, Griffith founded and edited the Irish nationalist newspaper The United Irishman in 1899. In 1904, he wrote The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland, which advocated the withdrawal of Irish members from the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the setting up of the institutions of government at home in Ireland, a policy that became known as Sinn Féin (ourselves). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Griffith is the 10,646th most popular politician (down from 9,326th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 100th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arthur Griffith ranks 10,646 out of 19,576. Before him are Polina Astakhova, Jiong of Xia, Cécile La Grenade, Hortensia, Hayır Bey, and Pap of Armenia. After him are Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, Erik Gustaf Boström, Kamehameha V, Tsuda Umeko, Constantine II, King of Armenia, and Lev Mekhlis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Arthur Griffith ranks 86. Before him are Gjergj Fishta, Hubert Cecil Booth, Emmanuel Foulon, Martin Knudsen, Ivan Poddubny, and Ahatanhel Krymsky. After him are Kiyoshi Shiga, Gyula Kellner, Saint-George Ashe, Gyula Károlyi, George Washington, and Guglielmo Ferrero. Among people deceased in 1922, Arthur Griffith ranks 68. Before him are Dimitrios Gounaris, Max Abraham, Joseph Oller, Luigi Denza, Michael Mayr, and Ali Kemal. After him are Saint-George Ashe, Ricardo Flores Magón, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Christiaan de Wet, and Heinrich Rubens.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Arthur Griffith ranks 137 out of 549. Before him are Pat McDonald (1878), Edward Bransfield (1785), Richard Montgomery (1738), Niall Horan (1993), William Brown (1777), and Anne de Mortimer (1390). After him are Arthur Johnson (1879), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852), Pat Cox (1952), Thomas Romney Robinson (1792), Patrick O'Connell (1887), and Arthur Guinness (1725).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Arthur Griffith ranks 27. Before him are Eliza Lynch (1833), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Edmund the Martyr (841), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), and Constantine III of Scotland (971). After him are Pat Cox (1952), Daniel O'Connell (1775), Micheál Martin (1960), Charles Stewart Parnell (1846), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), and Patrick Hillery (1923).

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