What happened when Éamon de Valera toured America during the start of the War of Independence

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Photograph of the Dáil Government and Provisional Government with supporters in background, January 1922. Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Blurred lines: the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State

The British may have formally handed over power in January 1922, but the subsequent creation of a new government was a complex business. Helene O'Keeffe …

Dublin Castle • 12 Jan

Certificate of the (Anglo-Irish) Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, signed 6th December 1921, to be submitted to Dáil Éireann for ratification by Arthur Griffith. Image courtesy of National Library of Ireland

How the Treaty debate changed Irish politics forever

If the Treaty had been rejected, there might have been a very different sort of civil war. Liam Weeks and Mícheál Ó Fathartaigh explain the …

History • 10 Dec 21

The signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Peace by ordeal: how the Treaty was signed

The negotiations were fraught, the result was divisive. Diarmaid Ferriter tells the story of a historic Anglo-Irish compromise that set the scene for a fatal …

History • 06 Dec 21

The Treaty

Treaty

Treaty • 07 Jan

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