GRIFFITH, Arthur. The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland. RARE FIRST EDITION

Illustrated. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., M.H. Gill & Son, Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1904. Large post octavo. First edition. pp. 99. Original yellow stapled wrappers, printed in black. A near fine copy. Exceedingly rare in this condition.
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Arthur Griffith (1871-1922), political theorist, and statesman was born in Dublin and educated by the Christian Brothers at Strand Street. He trained as a printer and joined the Gaelic League and I.R.B. before going to South Africa in 1897. On his return the following year he edited The United Irishman and founded Cumann na nGaedheal, a nationalist organisation which eventually became Sinn Féin. He headed the Irish delegation to London in 1921 along with Michael Collins that negotiated the Treaty, and vehemently defended the ‘signing’ in the Debates that followed. It is stated that he died of a broken heart on the outbreak of the Civil War.
The series of articles on the Resurrection of Hungary originally appeared in The United Irishman during the first half of 1904. Griffith’s objective was to point out to his fellow-countrymen that the alternative to armed resistance to the foreign government of this country was not acquiescence in usurpation, tyranny, and fraud. It laid the foundations for what became the ‘Sinn Féin’ policy, made a national figure of Griffith, and indeed may be said to have significantly influenced the course of Irish history.

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