The Anglo Irish Treaty

Talks between the Republican leadership and the British government led to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, with the Irish delegation eventually agreeing to self-governing dominion status for the twenty-six counties in the Irish Free State. The Treaty, however, was unacceptable to Republican hardliners who refused to settle for anything less than a united, independent 'Republic'. The Treaty was ratified by the Dail on 7 January 1922, only to be followed by a civil war in the South between pro and anti-treaty factions even bloodier than the earlier conflict had been. Collins himself was killed by anti-Treaty 'Irregulars' in August 1922.

More Events from January 7

• January 7, 1878
  General John O'Neill, Fenian leader, dies
• January 7, 1899
  Elizabeth Bowen, novelist and short story writer, is born
• January 7, 1922
  Dáil Éireann votes 64 to 57 to accept the Anglo-Irish Treaty, creating the Irish Free State