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Description: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/realtimehistory The Irish and British sides of the Irish War of Independence were exhausted from two years of fighting. The IRA was also about to run out of ammunition and other vital supplies to keep up the fight. And so the British government and the Irish delegation started to negotiate a treaty. » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: patreon.com/realtimehistory » SOURCES Cottrell, Peter, The Irish Civil War 1922-23, (Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2015) De Valera, Eamon & Moynihan, Maurice, Speeches and Statements by Eamon de Valera, 1917-73, (Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, 1980) Gibbons, Ivan, Partition: How and Why Ireland Was Divided, (London : Haus Publishing, 2021) Hawkings, F. M. A. “Defence and the Role of Erskine Childers in the Treaty Negotiations of 1921”, Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 22, No. 87 (Mar., 1981) Hopkinson, Michael, Green Against Green - The Irish Civil War : a History of the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923, (Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2010) Knirck, Jason K, Imagining Ireland’s Independence: The Debates over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, (Lanham, MA : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006) Mansergh, Nicholas, The Irish Free State: Its Government and Politics, (London : George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1934) Mansergh, Nicholas, The Unresolved Question: The Anglo-Irish Settlement and Its Undoing 1912-72, (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1991) “Sinn Fein President Will Not Recommend Treaty Acceptance for Ireland”, Morning Press, Volume L, Number 78, (9 December 1921) Townshend, Charles, The Republic: The Fight For Irish Independence 1918 - 1923, (London : Penguin Books, 2014) » OUR SISTER CHANNEL youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller & Florian Wittig Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Editing: Jose Gamez Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander Fact checking: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2021