I tell you this early morning I signed my death warrant.
Michael Collins on the day that the Anglo-Irish Treaty was concluded, 6 December 1921
The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was narrowly accepted by the revolutionary Dáil Éireann in January 1922, splitting Sinn Féin irrevocably and leading to the Irish Civil War, a rupture that still defines the Irish political landscape almost one hundred years on.
Drawing together the work of a...
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