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Desmond FitzGerald was born in London in 1888. FitzGerald married in 1911, lived in France until 1913 and then moved to County Kerry. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and organised a Volunteers group in Kerry. In 1915 FitzGerald was imprisoned for making a political speech. He was later expelled from Kerry and moved to County Wicklow. He fought at the 'General Post Office' during the 1916 Rising and was imprisoned. He was released in 1918 when he was elected as a Sinn Féin MPA Member of Parliament or MP is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. Australia In Australia, the term Member of Parliament refers specifically to a mem. Following the assembley of the First Dáil in 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus FitzGerald was appointed Director of Publicity for Dáil ÉireannDail Eireann is the lower house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Republic of Ireland 1. Its powers are similar to those of lower houses under many other parliamentary systems. It meets, since 1922, in Leinster House in Dublin. Composition The current, editing the Irish BulletinThe Irish Bulletin was the official newspaper of the short-lived Irish Republic. It appeared in weekly editions from 11 november 1919 to 11 july 1921, under the editorship of Desmond FitzGerald and Robert Erskine Childers. It campaigned against the Irish. He was arrested again in March 1921Events January 2 The first religious radio broadcast ( KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) January 2 Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia 244 dead January 2 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park San Francisco opens. January 20 Republic of Turke but was released following the Anglo-Irish TreatyThe Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed between representatives of the British government and envoys plenipotentiary (i. negotiators empowered to sign a treaty without reference back to their superiors) of the Irish Republic on December 6, 1921. Content of the later that year. He supported the Treaty and became the first Minister for External Affairs of the new independent Irish Free StateThe Irish Free State ( Irish language:, Saorstat Eireann was ( 1922 1937) the name of the state comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or A. He represented the new state at the League of Nations and at Imperial Conferences. In 1927Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 See also 1927 in aviation 1927 in film 1927 in literature 1927 in mu FitzGerald became Minister for Defence. Following the defeat of the government in 1932 he remained as a TD until 1938. That year he was appointed to Seanad Éireann. He remained there until he retired from politics in 1943. FitzGerald's son, Garret, served as Taoiseach on two occasions in the 1980's.

Desmond FitzGerald died on April 9, 1947 in Dublin, Ireland.