Let’s have a holiday for the birth of our democracy

JANUARY 21, 2009 will be the 90th anniversary of a very important day in Irish history, but it is very likely that the day will go unnoticed.

Is it too late, two months out, to try to organise a commemoration?

January 21,1919 was one of the most important days in modern Irish history. It was the day when Dáil Éireann first met in the Mansion House in Dublin.