James Craig

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British PM David Lloyd George privately said he would rather resign than coerce Ireland. Photograph: Bettmann Archive
What did David Lloyd George mean by ‘immediate and terrible war’?

No phrase is more associated with the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations than the one reputedly used by British prime minister David Lloyd George on the (...)

The Irish peace delegation shortly after arrival at the Grosvenor Hotel in London in 1921. Photograph: National Museum of Ireland
Treaty Timeline: from beginnings to a Republic

December 1920: Peace feelers by the Archbishop of Perth Patrick Clune founder on a demand by the British government that the IRA disarm before enterin(...)

Karen Ardiff as Arthur Griffith, Shadaan Felfeli as Robert Barton, Patrick Moy as Michael Collins, John Cronin as Cathal Brugha and Jane Brennan as Eamon De Valera during rehearsals. Photograph: Alan Betson
A century on: Dramatising the drama that led to Anglo-Irish Treaty

On the walls of the entrance to the Kevin Barry rehearsal rooms in the National Concert Hall are photographs from the Treaty debates 100 years ago. (...)

The Ulster Tower is a replica of Helen’s Tower, a Victorian folly built in famine times by Lord Dufferin on the Clandeboye estate in Co Down. Photograph: myLoupe/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Ulster Tower centenary remembers the complicated history of the first World War

The Ulster Tower is untypical of the traditional masculine solemnity of most first World War memorials on the Western Front. With its high tower and n(...)

Edward Carson’s statue at Stormont. Photograph: Artur Widak/Nurphoto via Getty
Denis Fahey: John Miller Andrews, historic Orangeman

On July 12th, 1933, John Miller Andrews, the local MP and labour minister in the Northern Ireland parliament, told an Orange rally at Finnnebrogue nea(...)

Belfast at about noon, June 22nd, 1921. Photograph: National Library of Ireland/Flickr Commons
‘Belfast let itself go with a vengeance’: Reporting the king’s speech, 1921

“Belfast let itself go with a vengeance yesterday when it opened the heart of Ulster to receive its King and Queen.” So begins the main news report in(...)

Arthur Griffith was chairman of the small Irish team sent to negotiate a treaty with Britain in 1921
Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith expected a 28-county Irish State

“When I was going to London Mr de Valera said to me, ‘There may have to be scapegoats’ . . . [Michael] Collins and myself were willing to be scapegoat(...)

Michael Collins arriving at Earlsfort Terrace for a Dáil meeting in January 1921. Photograph: Independent News And Media/Getty Images
The Treaty negotiations: a story of trust forged and trust broken

On the evening of December 5th, 1921, after two months locked in negotiations with the Irish, the British prime minister David Lloyd George decided th(...)

Arthur Griffith arriving at the Mansion House in Dublin on July 11th, 1921 after the truce is declared. Photograph: The National Museum of Ireland
Q&A: What happened in 1921 in Ireland?

What happened in 1921 in Ireland? A lot is the short answer. The two jurisdictions on this island which are now the Republic of Ireland and Northern(...)

Michael Collins (left) and Arthur Griffith. File photograph
Claim of British trickery in Anglo-Irish Treaty talks ‘debunked’ by memo

For the last 100 years, the behaviour of British prime minister David Lloyd George at the end of the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations has been the subj(...)

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