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| The First Dail Eireann |  The First Dail Eireann
The meeting of the first Dail Eireann was regarded as special by the
vast gathering that filled the Round Room of the Mansion House on the afternoon of 21 January 1919, who regarded their task as a sacred
trust. Ironically, as if to illustrate the disparate loyalties
permeating Irish life, another group of Irishmen, 400 Dublin Fusiliers,
had conducted a meeting elsewhere in the Mansion House a few minutes before the Dail sat. Commemorating their battles in the trenches for
the British Empire, they departed with the words of their chaplain
ringing in their ears: 'Be true to your faith and to your country'.
Whose country, Irish or British, was to prove the fundamental issue
facing Dail Eireann.
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