'We got him out to put him in', 1917-1918

'We got him out to put him in', 1917-1918

Election poster reading 'We got him out to put him in', for candidate William Cosgrave ‘A felon of our land’, for either the 1917 parliamentary by-election for Kilkenny City or the 1918 General Election. Printed at the Gaelic Press.
Cosgrave had been interned in Frongoch after the 1916 Rising, and won the Kilkenny City by-election in 1917. Later, while still imprisoned, he took a seat for Sinn Féin in the 1918 General Election. He became the Minister for Local Government in April 1919 in Dáil Éireann.