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The Treaty Of Negotiations - Online Term Paper

The Treaty Of Negotiations

On July 11, 1921, a truce was declared between the forces of Great Britain and the Irish Republican Army. The war that had begun on Jan. 21, 1919, known by some as the War of Independence and by others as the Black and Tan Wars was over, for the moment, at least. Neither side had surrendered to the other, neither could claim victory, where did they go from here? The answer, of course, was to attempt to negotiate a treaty that would give Ireland some form of self-rule. By the very act of their agreeing to the ceasefire, the British had conceded that they would have to agree to some form of self-rule; but it was fairly certain that they would start negotiations by offering only the weakest of ...

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in the field. What they could do was what they had done already, fight them to a standstill and make the world see them as a bully, mercilessly beating on a smaller neighbor. Luckily for the Irish in this regard, they had the total cooperation of the Black and Tans.

The brutal retaliations against defenseless Irish villages and people by these police auxiliaries had sickened and disgusted most of the world, including many in England, and played a large part in England's decision to negotiate. Their most infamous atrocity was the murder of eleven spectators at a GAA football match at Croke Park, Dublin, on Nov. 21, 1920, Ireland's first "Bloody Sunday." Harry Boland, a Dublin tailor and Sinn FĂŠin leader, and Michael Collins helped Eamon de Valera escape from a British prison nearly three years before the negotiations that led to the fateful pact with the British government. As difficult as it may have been for the Irish to fight the British in the field, where England had a ...

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Added: 10/14/2013 03:19:51 PM
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Category: European History
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