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33: 197:, then afterwards devoted his time to activities in the South. He served as assistant legal advisor to the Irish government in 1922–23, and as director of the North Eastern Boundary Bureau from 1922 to 1925. From 1923, he was a member of the 190: 120:, as he believed that Catholicism was incompatible with taking secret oaths, which would have been necessary to join any of the participating groups. Instead, in 1916, O'Shiel joined the 386: 411: 151:. One of the least promising constituencies in the country for Sinn Féin, he took 14.9% of the votes cast. He was also drafted at the last minute to stand in 152: 376: 148: 401: 194: 421: 416: 182:
in the Dáil land courts; through this, he served on the Land Settlement Commission, and occasionally acted as a circuit judge. He and
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candidate and decided that he would therefore withdraw. In the event, his only opponent in North Fermanagh was from the
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to successfully negotiating the admission of Ireland. In 1920, he was appointed as a
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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923
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The Winding-up of the Dáil Courts, 1922-1925: An Obvious Duty
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Kevin O'Shiel: Northern Nationalist and Irish-State Builder
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were the first two judges to be appointed by the Dáil.
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The scholar revolutionary: Eoin MacNeill, 1867-1945
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Northern Ireland: 24 May 1921: Fermanagh and Tyrone
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Sinn Féin
Irish Volunteers
Irish
Omagh
Mount St Mary's College
Derbyshire
Trinity College Dublin
King's Inns
Irish Home Rule
Irish Volunteers
Easter Rising
Irish Anti-Partition League
Sinn Féin
election agent
Arthur Griffith
1918 East Cavan by-election
1918 Irish general election
South Antrim
North Fermanagh
Irish Parliamentary Party
Irish Unionist Party
Irish War of Independence
Constitution of Ireland
League of Nations
judge
Conor Maguire
Fermanagh and Tyrone
1921 Northern Ireland general election
Irish Land Commission

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