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Arthur Griffith

1871 - 1922

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Arthur Joseph Griffith (Irish: Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha; 31 March 1871 – 12 August 1922) was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin. He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and served as the president of Dáil Éireann from January 1922 until his death later in August. After a short spell in South Africa, Griffith founded and edited the Irish nationalist newspaper The United Irishman in 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Griffith has received more than 797,858 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Arthur Griffith is the 9,327th most popular politician (up from 10,449th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 127th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Arthur Griffith ranks 9,327 out of 19,576. Before him are Mawdud of Ghazni, Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia, Eduardo Lonardi, Hans Delbrück, Zaid ibn Shaker, and Herman Willem Daendels. After him are Bernhard Förster, Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria, Anthemius, Fernando II, Duke of Braganza, Constantin Dăscălescu, and Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Arthur Griffith ranks 64. Before him are Thekla Resvoll, Gjergj Fishta, Erich von Tschermak, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Dame Gruev, and Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Alajos Szokolyi, Abanindranath Tagore, Giuseppe Motta, George Washington, John Millington Synge, and Wilhelm von Mirbach. Among people deceased in 1922, Arthur Griffith ranks 62. Before him are Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Heinrich Rubens, Karl Michael Ziehrer, Kamo, Joseph Oller, and Michael Mayr. After him are Géza Gárdonyi, Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Jules Guesde, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and John Butler Yeats.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Arthur Griffith ranks 100 out of 549. Before him are Dymphna (700), Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (1883), Charles Maturin (1780), John Flanagan (1873), Edward Mulhare (1923), and Roy Keane (1971). After him are John Millington Synge (1871), Fiona Shaw (1958), Arthur Guinness (1725), Constantine III of Scotland (971), William Brown (1777), and Edward Bransfield (1785).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Arthur Griffith ranks 17. Before him are Brian Boru (941), Edmund the Martyr (841), Malcolm II of Scotland (954), Eliza Lynch (1833), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), and Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785). After him are Constantine III of Scotland (971), John Boland (1870), Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760), Douglas Hyde (1860), Daniel O'Connell (1775), and William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737).

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