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History Wednesday: Irish War of Independence.

Above: The peacemakers: George Gavan Duffy, Erskine Childers, Robert Barton and Arthur Griffith in a group  Photographer: W. D. Hogan Collection: Hogan Wilson Collection Date: December 1921  Source: National Library of Ireland on The Commons  NLI Ref.: HOG3

OTD in 1921 Irish and British troops agreed on a ceasefire that eventually led to the signing of the “Anglo-Irish Treaty” (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach) on December 6th of the same year, which formally separated the Republic from Britain and from Northern Ireland. The truce and eventual treaty also led to the Irish Civil War, which lasted until 1923.