Bitter Compromise or Betrayal of Revolutionary Ideals? The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921

Abstract

Popularising article written for the centenary of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty. The article sums up the process of its negotiation and approval, its short-term and long-term consequences and the issues surrounding the current commemoration of the Irish Civil War.

Keywords

• Ireland
• Great Britain
• United Kingdom
• Anglo-Irish Treaty
• Irish Revolutionary Decade
• Irish War of Independence
• Irish Civil War
• Michael Collins
• Éamon de Valera
• commemoration