The Irish Convention
The Irish Convention was an assembly which sat in Dublin, Ireland from July 1917 until March 1918 to address the Irish question and other constitutional problems relating to an early enactment of self-government for Ireland, to debate its wider future, discuss and come to an understanding on recommendations as to the best manner and means this goal could be achieved.
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Éamon de Valera wins election to Parliament
On 10 July 1917, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Clare (the constituency which he represented until 1959) in a by-election caused by the death of the previous incumbent Willie Redmond, brother of the Irish Party leader John Redmond,who had died fighting in World War I.
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General French, acts on mistaken information that Sinn Féin is implicated in a pro-German plot and has most of the leaders arrested
General Sir John French, newly appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (also known as Viceroy), orders the arrest of Sinn Féin leaders based on mistaken intelligence suggesting their involvement in a pro-German plot during World War I. This event, known as the “German Plot”, leads to the arrest and internment of over 70 Sinn Féin members, including Éamon de Valera, further increasing public sympathy for the movement and radicalizing Irish nationalist opinion.
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Birth of singer Josef Locke (Joe McLaughlin) in Derry
Joseph McLaughlin (23 March 1917 – 15 October 1999), known professionally as Josef Locke, was an Irish tenor. He was successful in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Terence MacSwiney mayor of Cork died in an English prison on hunger strike.
Born in Cork and educated at North Monastery Christian Brothers’ School and the Royal University of Ireland, MacSwiney was a founder member of the Cork Celtic Literary Society in 1901 and, with Daniel Corkery, of the Cork Dramatic Society in 1908, for
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