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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Members of the First Dáil - Roger Sweetman

Roger Sweetman (18 August 1874 – 20 May 1954) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and barrister. His father was John Sweetman.

He was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for the Wexford North constituency at the 1918 general election. In January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs refused to recognise the Parliament of the United Kingdom and instead assembled at the Mansion House in Dublin as a revolutionary parliament called Dáil Éireann. He did not contest the 1921 elections. He formed part of the Sweetman political dynasty in the early 20th Century

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