219:" which led to his imprisonment and resulted in him not standing as a candidate in the 1918 parliamentary elections. His wife ran as a Sinn Féin candidate in a Dublin corporation election, and missed out by four votes. Soon after this she was elected a poor law guardian. O'Doherty was arrested again in June 1919, and was charged by court martial for possessing a rifle and ammunition stored at his house. He was not granted political status as a prisoner in
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withdrew from the IRB. His short time in the organisation did convince the leadership to pursue democratic endorsement from the Irish people. During the same period, O'Doherty wrote for two underground journals with anti-conscription material, and stored and hid arms and ammunition in his house which could be used to resist conscription. In May 1918, he was arrested as part of the "
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IRB to seek a mandate for the Irish republic through elections, which could be leveraged to get international recognition for the cause. He proposed that a republican candidate stand in the North
Roscommon by-election in early 1917, but the IRB supreme council refused to fund it. He had support from other individuals however, and he secured support and canvassed for Count
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Though the chances of rearrest were very high, O'Doherty refused to go on the run. As he entered his home in late
November 1919, he narrowly escaped a bullet that missed him. This attack was in response to the killing of a detective by the IRA in July, which O'Doherty had played no part in. This led
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O'Doherty was familiar with Ulster unionists from Derry, and acknowledged that they would not support an Irish republic, believing that further military action was likely to lead to
Ireland being partitioned. He was in favour of planned civil disobedience rather than violent resistance. He urged the
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O'Doherty became marginalised during 1917 to 1918, as he lacked the personal ambition and was more unassuming than other members, and felt more ambiguous towards the use to violence. Due to this, and factors relating to the IRB remaining an oath-bound secret society after the Easter Rising, he
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Ltd from 1923 to 1930, and Messrs Bull Ltd from 1930 to 1940. He stopped all political participation and retained friends from both sides of the Civil War while opposing all republican violence post-1923. In 1932, he turned down an invitation to join the
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December 1919, hoping that diplomatic efforts in the United States might be successful. In August 1920, his family joined him there. He worked for a firm of church furnishers, and wrote articles for an Irish-American newspaper, the
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in 1916. The O'Dohertys stored arms in their house in advance of the uprising. This led to the police watching their house, but his job as a travelling salesman provided ample cover for their activities. The
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banner and convinced many militants of the potential power in constitutional methods. Due to his prominence in the
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party and in 1934 an appointment as a senior civil servant in the stationery office by the Fianna Fáil government. His wife, Katherine, was an ardent supporter of de Valera and Fianna Fáil.
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arts degree, concluding that he did not have a vocation, he returned to Derry. He served as the honorary branch secretary of the
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