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April 1st: The 1st Dail Eireann - 1st Irish Assembly - had a private meeting at the Mansion House were they put in Eammon de Valera now as the Priomh Aire - Taoiseach - First Minister of the Irish Republic and ensured that the decisions of the 1st Dail Eireann would have effect throughout Ireland and they also wanted to ensure International recognition of the Irish Republic, acknowledging no right for the British Government to force their laws in Ireland. They also decided further to ostracise the Royal Irish Constabulary - R.I.C. who were Irishmen being used by the British Government to keep their own people under their control and surveillance.

Dr. Patrick Mac Cartan previously sent by the I.R.B. to America in 1917 as their envoy had become the recognized representative of the Dail Eireann over there but was not on friendly terms with John Devoy or Judge Cohalan aka Culhane - Ua Cathalain, from the Clann na Gael, which did not bode well for the future of overall relationships.

April 2rd - 4th: The 1st Dail Eireann - 1st Irish Assembly - decided to increase the number of Irish Ministers to 9 under Eamonn de Valera their President with Michael Collins becoming Minister for Finance replacing Eoin Mac Neill, Arthur Griffiths the Minister for Home Affairs, Cathal Brugha the Minister for Defence, William Cosgrove the Minister for Local Government, Countess Constance Markievicz the Minister for Labour, Eoin Mac Neill the Minister for Industry, Robert Barton Minister for Agriculture and Count Plunkett was retained as the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Under the auspices of Arthur Griffiths' original idea of Self - Reliance - Sinn Fein - We Ourselves - they then introduced their own Irish Dail Courts and Dail Eireann Departments in Ireland adverse to the British Government controlled systems.

April 6th: An Irish prisoner was murdered on this day in cold blood by the British Government forces while the Irish Volunteers were trying to rescue him in Limerick in Co. Limerick in the Munster Province and a 5 day strike was called in Ireland because of his death in custody and to counteract this measure the British Government bought in Martial Law in Limerick itself and 1,000 Irish fans who were attending a hurling match outside the City where not allowed back into Limerick because they had no British Government permits.

April 8th: An Ard - Fheis - Convention was held at the Mansion House over 2 days were it was decided to request the elected members of the 1st Dail Eireann to begin ostracising the Royal Irish Constabulary - R.I.C who were now not a real police force at all but being used by the British Government as a vast military spy network, set up to hold Ireland subject to British Government rule. They were keeping daily records of all Irish individuals or any Irish organizations, which expressed patriotic opinions, who were teaching the Irish language or even appeared in Irish plays. The Irish knew full well that if they could dismantle the R.I.C. police the British Government administration's control over the people of Ireland from their stronghold in Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 Acre) could be bought to a halt. To this end they began a campaign to bring discredit to the R.I.C. position among the people of Ireland so that all would be aware of their actual role in the scheme of things.

April 9th: Michael Collins also sent out warnings to the British Government's "G" Division to stop being so officious to the citizens of Ireland but to actually carry out their real duties as they normally would as policeman would be expected to do in a normal society.

April 10th: Eamonn de Valera advised that the 1st Dail Eireann - 1st Irish Assembly - had decided to set up an Irish Loan for 500,000 pounds to assist in the running and administration of the Irish Republic. All patriotic Irish men now also put their efforts forward into the Peace Conference to be held in Paris to bring forward Ireland's right as an Oppressed Nation to Self - Determination so often previously espoused by the American President Woodrow Wilson. The constant attacks and raids now being carried out on the individual Irish households by the British forces made more and more of the people in Ireland come to realise that the time must come for them to stand up and be counted as the Irish newspapers were also still being constantly censored by the British Government's Dublin Castle officials. Despite all the troubles existing in Ireland, Eamonn de Valera was still determined to go to America to raise awareness about the Peace Conference and also raise the Irish Loan there and it was once again up to Michael Collins to make the arrangements to get him there. He sent Harry Boland ahead to set it up for him and launch the Irish Loan while Eammon de Valera also asked him to look into the personality dispute amongst the Irish Americans of Clann na Gael that he had been informed now existed.

April 12th: The 3 American Special Delegates, including Governor Dunne from Illinois who represented Chicago, were supposed to put Ireland's case forward at the Paris Peace Conference on behalf of the Friends for Irish Freedom and they received an invitation from David Lloyd - George the British Prime Minister to come and see him before the Peace Conference but later on he was to change his mind when they visited Ireland first to gain on the ground knowledge of what was really occurring there.

April 20th: The Irish Volunteers carried out another raid this time on the R.I.C Barracks at Araglen in Co. Cork in Southern Munster to obtain more rifles and ammunition in case they were needed in any future conflict between them and the well armed British Government forces.

May 3rd: The 3 American Special Delegates to the Peace Conference in Paris visited Ireland were they addressed the Dail Eireann - Irish Assembly - on their way their and were able to see first hand what the British Government policies were carried out like in Ireland and Eammon de Valera expressed his view to them that as Irish Americans they were now the only hope for Ireland to obtain a hearing at the Paris Peace Conference by ensuring President Woodrow Wilson lived up to his previous promises. One of the delegates then informed him that if he wanted the Irish Loan to really succeed in America he should go there personally to promote it. - The Catholic Bishops in Ireland came out and publicly stated as far as they were concerned the "Artificial Partition of Ireland" was as dead as a door nail. - Up until now 10,000 pounds had already been raised by Eammon de Valera's American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic.

May 4th: The British Government's Martial Law in Limerick City in Co. Limerick in the Munster Province was now withdrawn and the 3 American Delegates to the Peace Conference in Paris were welcomed by the Irish people all over Ireland as Ireland's chance to gain a democratic and peaceful resolution for an Independent Ireland except for Belfast in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, which was the Unionist stronghold.

May 10th: The 3 American Peace Delegates also attended the public session of the 1st Dail Eireann - Irish Assembly - in Dublin where there was a very large crowd present and it too was also subsequently raided by the British Government forces but only after they had left the scene. May 11th: On the next day the 3 American Peace Delegates were refused entry into Westport in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province by the British Government military forces. May 13th: The 3 American Peace Delegates left Ireland for Paris having seen enough to fully realise the actual situation that existed in Ireland but because they had visited Ireland before seeing him David Lloyd - George the British Prime Minister cancelled his invitation to see them. Once they arrived in Paris the American Peace Commissioners advised them that they also would not make any effort on their behalf for Ireland, as they had given offence to the British Government. It was now very clear that Ireland would receive no justice at all at the forthcoming Peace Conference if the British Government had their way..

The 1st Dail Eireann - 1st Irish Assembly - had put all their efforts since April to ensure that their overall administration was producing the necessary results for the people in Ireland but Finance continued to loom as their main problem and to this end they sanctioned obtaining the required Loans for use in Ireland to be collected also in Ireland and America, under the guidance of Michael Collins who was to be most successful in this regard. Meanwhile, the matter of the Irish Volunteers coming under the control of the Dail Eireann - Irish Assembly - was constantly bought up as another problem that was necessary to be solved.

May 17th: Eammon de Valera, Arthur Griffith and Count Plunkett wrote to Clemenceau the French President of the Peace Conference denying the British Government the right to sign on behalf of the people of Ireland.

May 26th: The 1st Dail Eireann - 1st Irish Assembly - wrote to the convenors of the Peace Conference again, requesting that the claim by Ireland to be recognized as an Independent Sovereign State be officially recorded, although they well knew they had no chance by now due to the successful prior negative activities carried out by the British Government.

June 3rd: Michael Collins arranged for Eammon de Valera the President of the 1st Dail Eireann - Irish Assembly - to leave for America via England on the S. S. Lapland, while he made out that he was going to visit Austin Stack who the British Government was still holding as a prisoner in Manchester Jail in England. On board the boat to England was James Mac Mahon the British Under - Secretary for Ireland but Eammon de Valera refused to meet with him and on arriving in England continued on his way to America where he was to remain physically for 18 months during the coming "Troubles" in Ireland with the British Government. Michael Collins as the President of the Supreme Council of the I.R.B. - Irish Republican Brotherhood, Commander of the Irish Republican Army.- I.R.A., and a Sinn Fein Party member of the 1st Dail Eireann, the Minister of Finance and a Cabinet member of the eventual Provisional Irish Government would be mostly left to carry the day to day responsibility for it all.

June 6th: The American Senate voted 60 to 1 to allow Eamonn de Valera, Arthur Griffith and Count Plunkett to address them regarding Irish Independence.

June: The Irish prisoners still held by the British Government in the Belfast Jail in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province were by now in a terrible state of health so the British Government shifted them to Manchester Jail in England instead.

June 7th: The American Senate voted by a 70 majority that Ireland should receive a hearing in Paris but President Woodrow Wilson told them he would not take up the case for Ireland and he also refused to see Judge Cohalan the Justice of the Supreme Court there who was a friend of John Devoy and the Clann na Gael. The 3 Peace Delegates sent from America reported their findings on the conditions prevailing in Ireland under British Government rule and this created a sensation there, which upset Ian Mac Pherson the British Chief Secretary in Ireland, who said that their findings were incorrect and that he would give the true facts and he issued a report to suit his own purposes. The British Government would not allow the original report that the 3 American Delegates had previously issued in America to be published in Ireland. This ban only reinforced the British Government's ingrained outlook and their whole attitude towards the people of Ireland who once again clearly saw the need to direct their own destiny if any common rights or justice was ever to gain the upper hand in Ireland.

Much to the ire of Woodrow Wilson when the League of Nations was to be eventually set up the American Congress opposed the participation of America in it and the Paris Peace Treaty, which had only created an association of perpetual power, as under the regulations they had decided amongst themselves that those who already had the power could keep their hold forever on those under their control. Although it was to be signed by Woodrow Wilson the President of the United States, who so vehemently denied Ireland its freedom, fate would have it that it would not be ratified by the U.S.A. A positive effect of the refusal to allow Ireland representation at the Peace Conference by Woodrow Wilson was that the 750 years of English - British Government oppression of Ireland had been bought to the attention of all the other Countries while the negative effect was that the British Government now felt so secure in their Imperial position to continue on with the oppression in Ireland and also began to really step up their Military offensive there.

June 11th: Eammon de Valera as the President of the 1st Dail Eireann - Irish Assembly - arrived in New York after an 8 day journey were he was met by Harry Boland who took him to see Liam Mellowes then onto Joseph Mac Garrity's in Philadelphia and after laying low for a week he went to see his mother in Rochester. June 16th: Harry Boland announced that Eammon de Valera would be at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on the 23rd June and and to gain further publicity challenged the American press to find out were he was staying at the present time. June 23rd: The meeting set down at the Waldorf Astoria with Eammon de Valera occurred and John Devoy and Judge Cohalan greeted him there and he announced to the press and all those present that he was there to launch the Irish Loan, which Judge Cohalan and John Devoy were against as they feared it would interfere with the Irish Victory Fund but he was fully committed to go ahead and Judge Goff agreed to help him. Kathleen O Connell from Caherdaniel in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province became his secretary and was to remain with him for 37 years until her death in 1956.

June 27th: The Paris Peace Treaty was signed and on June 29th: Eammon de Valera attended a meeting in Boston were he spoke on the shortcomings that the Paris Peace Treaty agreed to by those who would remain in perpetual control of the Smaller Nations already under their authority would bring. He believed it would only create 20 new Wars throughout the World instead of stable Peace as it really only preserved their previous authoritarian control over their existing held territories.

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