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TOMORROW MARKS THE 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
After violence escalated for the first six months of the year, representatives of the Irish Republic and the British government agreed a truce in July 1921.
That led to months of lengthy negotiations before the War of Independence finally concluded with the signing of the treaty on 6 December that year.
Unfortunately, it was far from the end of the bloodshed in Ireland.
To mark the anniversary, test your knowledge of how the treaty negotiations went down.
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Collins said the treaty would give us the freedom to achieve our ultimate freedom. Unfortunately 100 years on we are still partitioned.
@Brian Dunne: unfortunately we handed rule over to the Catholic Church… didn’t that work out well?
@Stephen Boland: Dev did.
@Brian Dunne: unfortunately we will never know as Collins’s didn’t get a chance to proceed.
@Stephen Boland: and now the EU!
Michael Collins was the man who Freed Ireland he would turn in his grave if he seen what’s going on now and that includes sinn Fein the so called republican party
@John gaughan: We’re getting there slowly but surely. It’s destiny.
I always think on how devastated the Catholics in the 6 countys would’ve felt after being left behind and particularly those in the Catholic majority countys. :(
@wormtubes: ‘Catholics’ are they all church goers? You mean Irish nationalists and those who don’t have an allegiance to the country that partitioned theirs
@wormtubes: you realise Ireland was partitioned before the Treaty and Northern Ireland was up and running? When the Irish Free State came into being a year after the Treaty, NI opted out the following day.
@Angela McCarthy: 99.9% of irish nationalists in 1922 were practicing devout catholics – as were the likes of Collins, Pearse and Sands. But point taken.
@Ciaran O’Mara: yes I do realise that.. what’s your point?
A 100 years later and their descendants are negotiating with another equally slippery set of eels called Johnson and Frost. With this in mind it’s a wonder they did so well in the negotiations (as well as they were allowed).
The British Prime Minister promising “terrible and immediate war” if no agreement was reached isn’t exactly embracing the spirit of international diplomacy but not untypical of British politicians to be fair.
Michael Collins was Sinn Fein
@Eamon Guilfoyle: irrelevant. It’s been 100 years…
@Eamon Guilfoyle: a very different SF!
@Eamon Guilfoyle: the SF today was formed in 1970
@Eamon Guilfoyle: yes the real Sinn Fein
If collins’ hadn’t have been killed it would have been a different gig – he was already sorting arms depots along the border so the IRA could resume their campaign…
@Thomas Harrington: Really?
Where would be best place to read up about these plans?
Genuinely new information to me.
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