Arthur Griffith

Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) was the founder of the political party Sinn Féin, and the editor of the United Irishman newspaper, which he and William Rooney founded in 1899. In 1904, he wrote The Resurrection of Hungary, which advocated for a dual monarchy system akin to the arrangement between the Hungarians and the Austrians in 1867, the means of achieving such a model would be through a policy of abstentionism from the British Parliament and passive resistance. The dual monarchy proposal was however eventually scrapped, and Sinn Féin would become a republican party by 1917. Griffith then was involved in the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, having spent much of the War of Independence in prison, as part of the Irish delegation, as well as serving as President of Dáil Éireann until his death in 1922.

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Writings

Boer and Uitlander (1899-1902)

The Resurrection of Hungary (1904)

The Placehunter in Irish Politics (1913)

An Industrial Revival

Song of the Transvaal Irish Brigade (1899)

Prophets of Patriotism (1899)

The Tourist Traffic (1899)

The Anglo-Saxon (1899)

On Pan-Celticism (1899)

The True Use Of History (1899)

A National Organisation (1899)

The Legend of the Pale Young Man (1899)

Advance of Imperialism (1899)

The New Patriotism (1899)

Ireland and Imperialism (1899)

Irishmen’s Business (1899)

Founding of the United Irishman (1899)

Solidarity with the Boers (1899)

Reafforestation and Drainage (1899)

Formation of Cumann na nGaedheal (1900)

The National Revival (1900)

Valhalla (1900)

Some Opinions of Father Kavanagh’s I Do Not Believe In (1900)

A Life of Parnell (1900)

The Queen’s Speech (1900)

Napoleon and Ireland (1900)

A National Organisation—A Suggestion (1900)

Preface to William Rooney’s Poems and Ballads (1901)

“Irish Ireland.” (1901)

Our National Anthem (1901)

The Destruction of Tara (1901)

The Definition of an Irishman (1901)

Irish Nationalism and the Irish Language (1901)

On Authority (1901)

The Limerick Boycott (1904)

On Constitutionalism (1905)

The Sinn Féin Policy (1905)

Review of ‘The Salvation of Erin’ (1905)

The Sinn Féin Policy (1906)

Review of ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ (1907)

Proportional Representation (1908)

The Sinn Féin Daily (1908)

Déanta i nÉirinn (1909)

Ireland and the New American Tariff (1909)

Ourselves (1909)

An Anti-Emigration Policy (1910)

The English-Made Strike (1911)

The Doctrine of Nationality (1911)

Unconquered Ireland (1911)

True and False Imperialism (1911)

Home Rule and the Unionists (1912)

Troubled Dublin (1913)

Preface by Arthur Griffith (1913)

The Dublin Riots (1913)

Emigration—Australia (1913)

The Nation (1913)

The Volunteers (1913)

The Return of the Gael (1913)

Sinn Féin and the Labour Question (1913)

The Economics of the ‘Food-Ship’ (1913)

Labour, Capital and the Nation (1913)

The Census (1913)

Nationalists and Internationalists (1913)

Thomas Davis: The Thinker and Teacher (1914)

Ireland and the War (1914)

Founding of ‘Scissors and Paste’ (1914)

National Unity: Back to the Base (1914)

Ulster and the Nation (1914)

The Crime Against Europe (1915)

Irishmen, Jews and ‘Imperial’ Patriots (1915)

The Influence of Fenianism (1915)

When The Government Publishes Sedition (1915)

Founding of Nationality (1915)

Preface (1916)

The Honour of Ireland (1916)

The Strategic Position of Ireland (1916)

Preface to ‘Meagher of the Sword’ (1916)

Where They Break Treaties—Where They Make Treaties (1917)

Friedrich List (1917)

Arthur Griffith’s Message To East Cavan (1918)

In Defence of Abstentionism (1918)

Arthur Griffith, The English Government and East Cavan (1918)

Preface to James Fintan Lalor, Patriot and Political Essayist (1918)

The Economic Oppression of Ireland (1918)

Speech on the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1921)

Arthur Griffith’s Last Statement (1922)