An Important Lecture by Dr Gabriel Doherty of UCC on the War of Independence:

In July 2021 a truce was signed, leading eventually to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition of Ireland and a betrayal of the Irish Republic.  During the negotiations “all out war” was threatened by the English, and in the Dáil debates anti-republican speakers said that the IRA couldn’t continue, for want of arms, that it could not sustain further war.

But this was not true.

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” To see ourselves as our enemy sees us … “ – Diarmaid O'Cadhla

In July 2021 a truce was signed, leading eventually to the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition of Ireland and a betrayal of the Irish Republic.  During the negotiations “all out war” was threatened by the English, and in the Dáil debates anti-republican speakers…