The Oireachtas Library & Research Service is exhibiting a copy of Ireland’s Case Against Conscription, written by Éamon de Valera in 1918.
The document was published to support the campaign in Ireland to resist conscription during the First World War. Éamon de Valera was a member of the Irish Anti-Conscription Committee, an alliance of leading Irish nationalists, along with John Dillon and Arthur Griffith.
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