Description: The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis. Dedicated to Arthur Griffith. First Edition. Pp 100. Published by Mellifont Press, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 1922. Mustard cloth boards titled in black. Frontispiece plate of “The Constitution Committee in Session.” Printed hard covers are aged and stained (see photos). Slightly loosened bottom hinge but binding is intact. Internally clean and fresh. Very scarce. By 1920 Darrell Figgis was a prominent member of the first Dáil and he chaired the committee that drew up the State’s first Constitution. When Michael Collins sat down to sign the new Irish constitution in the Shelbourne Hotel in 1922 the document was largely the work of Darrell Figgis (an event which is commemorated with a plaque in the aptly named Constitution Room of the Shelbourne Hotel). Following the Civil War Figgis refused to side with either De Valera or Cosgrave and in the 1922 elections ran successfully as an independent for South Dublin. He died tragically in 1925 at the age of 43.
Price: 120 EUR
Location: Dublin
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Binding: Hardback
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: Dublin
Non-Fiction Subject: Law
Signed: No
Publisher: Mellifont Press, Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Weight: 400 g
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1922
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Darrell Figgis
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Europe
