Editing Domhnall Ua Buachalla (section)

==1916–1932==
He was a member of the [[Irish Volunteers]] and on the outbreak of the 1916 [[Easter Rising]], he cycled the 26 kilometres to Dublin, found the Rising was on and returned to [[Maynooth]], where he gathered his men, marched them to Dublin and fought in the GPO and as a sniper in outposts in the Exchange Hotel in [[Parliament Street, Dublin|Parliament Street]] and Arnott's of Henry Street; he was a crack shot. On the retreat from the GPO he was sent on a sortie and made it to the William and Woods factory but found it full of looters and left. He made it to the [[Broadstone railway station]] but was held there by British soldiers and sent to [[Richmond Barracks]] and from there to Knutsford Prison and then [[Frongoch internment camp]] in Wales.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0194.pdf |title=Bureau of Military History, 1913–21. Statement By Witness. Document No. W.S. 194. |last=Ua Buachalla |first=Domhnall |author-link=Domhnall Ua Buachalla |date=16 February 1949 |website=militaryarchives.ie |access-date=1 March 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927075614/http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0194.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> He was released a few days before Christmas 1916, and describes the prisoners getting a "royal welcome" on their return. Like many Rising survivors, he joined [[Sinn Féin]], a small separatist party that was wrongly blamed by the British government for the Easter Rising. In the aftermath of the Rising, survivors led by [[Éamon de Valera]] took over the party in the struggle for the establishment of an Irish republic. Ua Buachalla was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for [[North Kildare (UK Parliament constituency)|Kildare North]] at the [[1918 Irish general election|1918 general election]]. He served in the [[First Dáil]] (1918–1921), and was re-elected to the [[Second Dáil]] in 1921 as a [[Teachta Dála]] (TD) for [[Kildare–Wicklow (Dáil constituency)|Kildare–Wicklow]].<ref name=dib>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-buachalla-ua-buachalla-domhnall-donaldaniel-richard-buckley-a6284|title=Ó Buachalla (Ua Buachalla), Domhnall (Donal/Daniel Richard Buckley)|work=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last=Coleman|first=Marie |access-date=8 January 2022}}</ref> He sided with de Valera and opposed the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]]. He fought in the [[Four Courts]] in the [[Irish Civil War|Civil War]]. Imprisoned in [[Dundalk]] jail, he was released by the Anti-Treaty troops in August 1922.<ref name=biography>{{cite web|url=http://www.archontology.org/nations/eire/eire_gg/buckley.php|title=Biography of Ua Buachalla|work=archontology.org|access-date=20 August 2010|archive-date=6 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806023441/http://www.archontology.org/nations/eire/eire_gg/buckley.php|url-status=live}}</ref> He lost his seat at the [[1922 Irish general election|1922 general election]], and was an unsuccessful candidate at the [[1923 Irish general election|1923 general election]].