over 206,000 Irishmen have served and over 35,000 been killed during the war; there is no Irish parish without a loss. 22 December – Ireland voices a united invitation to President of the United States Woodrow Wilson to visit. 28 December – Sinn Féin have a landslide victory in the general election, winning 73 of the 105 seats in Ireland. The Irish Parliamentary Party is nearly wiped out. In accordance with their manifesto, Sinn Féin members will not take their seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom but will form the First Dáil. Countess Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway Prison, becomes the first woman elected to (but does not take her seat in) the Palace of Westminster. On 30 December the Irish Independent strongly criticises her. Arts and literature March – the Telemachus episode of James Joyce's Ulysses is published (in serialised form) in the American journal The Little Review. 25 May – James Joyce's Exiles: a play in three acts is published in London. August – Anglo-Welsh composer Philip Heseltine concludes a year's stay in Ireland with the writing of a number of songs which will be published under the pseudonym Peter Warlock. Francis Ledwidge's poems Last Songs are published posthumously, edited by Lord Dunsany. Toirdhealbhach Mac Suibhne (Terence MacSwiney)'s poems Battle-cries are published in Cork. 'Brinsley MacNamara' (John Weldon writing as 'Oliver Blyth') publishes his novel The Valley of the Squinting Windows. Sport Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) All Ireland Senior Hurling Final Limerick 9–5 d Wexford 1–3 All Ireland Senior Football Final Wexford 0–5 d Tipperary 0–4 Football Irish League Winners: Linfield Irish Cup Winners: Belfast Celtic 0–0, 0–0, 2–0 Linfield Births January – John Coffey, Tipperary hurler (died 2019). 18 January – Jim Langton, Kilkenny hurler (died 1987). 23 January – Charlie Kerins, Chief of Staff of the IRA, convicted of murder of Garda Síochána officer (hanged 1944). 26 January – Louis Jacobson, cricketer (died 2013). 7 February – Markey Robinson, artist (died 1999). 14 February Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Ceann Comhairle and Fine Gael TD and Cabinet Minister (died 2006). Valentin Iremonger, poet and diplomat (died 1991). 3 March – Peter O'Sullevan, horseracing commentator (died 2015 in England). 5 March – Denis J. O'Sullivan, Fine Gael TD (died 1987). 17 March – Frederick Blaney, cricketer (died 1988). 12 March – Pádraig Faulkner, Fianna Fáil TD for Louth and Cabinet Minister (died 2012). 16