Show IRISH parliament MEETS AT DUBLIN declaration OF independence ADOPTED AND DELEGATES TO PEACE CONGRESS CHOSEN members of sinn fein society elected to british house of commons will have a parliament 1 of I their own dublin twenty five members of the slim sinn feln fein society elected to flit alio british house ot of commons assembled bled liere here tuesday afternoon and formally constituted themselves the dall dail air cann which Is irish gaelic for irish parliament they elected charles burgess whose irish name Is cathal brugha speaker also adopted a declaration of independence and au an address to the tree free nations of the world and appointed a committee con consisting asting of count plunkett arthur griffiths and professor edward de valera to present the claims of ireland to self determination to the peace conference at paris the two last named being in british prisons only the venerable count diun alun cart can proceed to paris and then only provided the british government consents to give him passports the walls of the hall were quaintly embellished with tile the classic statues in plaster and coats of arms past lord mayors have witnessed many more exciting dramas notably in recent years the conventions of the nationalist party when there were impassioned speeches and hot party contests that the proceedings seemed tame by conti contrast wt was due to the fact that they were conducted in tho the dead language of the irish tongue longue this was a tribute to sentiment but it was deadening to interest few of tile the 2000 auditors understood the addresses A crowd of perhaps a thousand including ninny many women and children wearing green white and yellow ribbons pressed around the door of the mansion house watching the delegates enter only two policemen were visible but the sinn fein had its own police youths Nv wearing earing white arm bands to keep order the most striking feature of the program was the reading odthe of the declaration of independence first in irish with the delegates standing and afterwards in english and french lre ire lands address to the free nations was read it concluded with an announcement of the complete independence of the irish republic against the arrogant gant pretensions of england founded in fraud and sustained only by on an overwhelming military occupation |