Commemorations continue to mark death of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins 100 years on
stood for election to the first Northern Ireland parliament.In a speech before the election, reported by the Freeman's Journal, Collins set out his opposition to the partition of Ireland.
He said: "We ask our friends to vote for us on the ground that Ireland is one and indivisible, and that she is not to be torn asunder by any act of an English assembly. "We stand, further, to reassert the principle fought for in 1916, confirmed by the votes of all Ireland in 1918, and being fought for at the present moment throughout the length and breadth of Ireland."Éamon de Valera was also elected for Sinn Féin, as was Arthur Griffith, a founder of the party.
Griffith died 10 days before Collins in August 1922. It meant that two seats in the new 52-member parliament in Belfast were vacant but by-elections were not held.
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