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1921 - 6 - August - September
August 6th:
Eammon de Valera
redrafted his personal
External Association Theory, that now contained
an even less offer of association with the British Commonwealth, which he then
presented for perusal to
Arthur Griffith, Eoin Mac Neill and
Erskine Childers and it was
passed by the 2nd Dail Eireann Cabinet with the
idea that the lesser offer would create a longer period of correspondence to
carry the discussion on the Anglo - Irish
Treaty over a longer period into the
Winter
period in case the Anglo - Irish
War should begin again.
August 8th:
Michael Collins
stated once again that there would be no meeting of the
2nd
Dail Eireann
until
Sean Mac Eoin
was free and this finally bought about his
release that evening after
Eammon de Valera was to
release a
statement that he must be
released or there would be no further proceedings with the Anglo - Irish Treaty negotiations.
August 10th:
Robert Barton
and
Eammon Duggan
went to London
with the reply from the
2nd Dail Eireann Cabinet to give it to David
Lloyd - George the British Prime Minister, with two copies, one in
English and one in
Irish.
Eamonn de Valera
took it upon himself without any consultation with the
2nd Dail Eireann to advise
David Lloyd - George personally that
the
2nd Dail Eireann
- 2nd Irish Assembly - could not accept his
previous proposals for an Anglo - Irish Treaty but the
decision by the Irish Ministers
to reject David
Lloyd - George's proposals
was endorsed. They they then held a public
meeting at the Mansion House
in Dublin where a large crowd attended and
Michael Collins especially, was received with
great warmth, which upset
certain Ministers in the
Dail Eireann
Cabinet whose own egos were effected by his personal popularity.
The Irish
Volunteers -
I.R.A. - Irish Republican Army also met for the first time
since 1920 under
Eamonn de Valera at the
Mansion House in
Dublin where
Cathal Brugha and
Austin Stack insinuated that
Michael Collins had used
I.R.A.
funds for his own purposes, which had been
channelled through the
I.R.B. and
Eamonn de Valera for some reason known
only to himself
made no effort to have the matter clarified.
August 13th:
Robert Barton
and
Eammon Duggan
returned with the reply from
David Lloyd - George, the British
Prime Minister, that there would be
no acceptance of the
Irish proposals for an Anglo -
Irish Treaty, especially as to
their not giving allegiance to the
British King
and that Ireland was
bound to
the
British Imperial Empire.
August 23rd:
The 2nd Dail
Eireann Cabinet held their meeting
where
Eammon de Valera
advised them that it was his intention not to
personally attend any future
meetings with
David Lloyd - George the British Prime
Minister over the
Treaty although he was the President of the
2nd Dail Eireann - Irish
Assembly - as he already knew personally what David - Lloyd - George was willing
to
consider.
August 24th:
Eamonn de Valera
advised
David Lloyd - George the
British Prime Minister officially of the
2nd Dail Eireann's
affirmation of the decision not to accept
his proposals and that there had to be government in
Ireland by
consent of the people if there ever was to be lasting
peace.
August 26th:
The 2nd Dail
Eireann's reply was unacceptable to
David Lloyd - George who replied
with the supposition that the former
Irish leaders
Daniel O Connell the Liberator and
Thomas Davis the
Young Irelander, ("You must educate
to be free") had not claimed
separation for Ireland from
England and he even dropped in a
few quotes from
Abraham Lincoln
for good measure made by him during the
American Civil War.
The
2nd Dail Eireann
met again over the same issue, and as Eammon de Valera was point blank refusing to attend any future meetings
with David Lloyd - George, they all agreed that the
Irish delegates to any future
Conference on an Anglo - Irish
Treaty
with the British Government
should be given a free hand to discharge their
duty to the best of their ability in the
circumstances prevailing, (Eamonn de Valera was
already aware of what these would be.)
September 1st:
The
I.R.B. - Irish Republican Brotherhood
also had a meeting to discuss
the present situation in regard to the Anglo - Irish Treaty.
September 7th:
David Lloyd - George the
British Prime Minister wrote again to
Eamonn de Valera
wanting to have further
discussions at
Inverness on the
20th
of September to discuss
an
association of
Ireland with the
British Imperial
Empire to see were it could be reconciled
with the Irish
National aspirations.
September 9th:
The 2nd Dail
Eireann delegates who were to to attend the coming conference with
David
Lloyd - George were agreed upon but
they did not include
Eammon de Valera
who was totally opposed to the
British proposals and who made
this decision by his own casting vote and
Cathal Brugha and
Austin Stack
who were also totally opposed to the
British proposals also declined.
Eammon de Valera chose
Arthur Griffith who he knew was a moderate and well disposed to
bringing about a
compromise, although he was previously a monarchist, and
Robert Barton
whom he considered was an uncompromising
extremist Irish Republican.
September 12th:
Eammon de
Valera sent
Joseph Mac Grath and
Harry Boland to advise David
Lloyd - George that the
2nd Dail
Eireann Delegates would attend the
conference on the date suggested, but as the representatives of a
Sovereign
State, which had
already declared it's independence and
David
Lloyd - George said he would not accept
the letter in it's original form stating that
"Ireland
was a
Sovereign State" and
that this would be the end of negotiations if
the letter was ever published stating these facts.
Despite this
Eamonn de Valera
ignored his advice and published it
anyway.
September 14th:
Eammon de
Valera advised the meeting
of the
2nd Dail
Eireann - 2nd Irish Assembly - of the results of these discussion with
David
Lloyd - George and that he had ignored
his advice and published the letter anyway, which he now put before them for their
approval as he had felt that a strong statement was necessary at this stage to
make it more difficult for
David Lloyd - George to
break off negotiations. The
2nd Dail Eireann Cabinet ratified the
appointment of the
Irish Delegates to meet with
David
Lloyd - George and
W.T. Cosgrave moved that
Eammon de Valera as the
President of
the 2nd Dail Eireann should lead the delegation
himself but the motion was lost for want
of a seconder. His personal explanation was, as to his
not
attending this particular meeting, later on to
Joseph Mac Garrity, was that he did not
want to let down the side as he would be a reserve
against
David Lloyd - George's tricks and
that he would have greater influence over
Cathal Brugha, Austin Slack
and Mrs.
Kathleen Clarke
and others if he was not personally involved in the
negotiations.
September 15th:
David Lloyd - George
replied that he could not negotiate with
Eammon de Valera as a representative of an
Independent
or
Sovereign State
as this would be official recognition by the
British Imperial Government that
Ireland was a
separate Country from the
British Imperial Empire and Eammon
de Valera then replied that,
"Negotiators must meet without
prior prejudices and conditions, with only the
facts."
September 19th:
The Anglo - Irish Conference to be held at
Inverness
was then called off by
David Lloyd - George and
correspondence ensued between him and
Eammon de Valera as he tried to convince him to change the
Irish Cabinet's position and
altogether 15
letters and telegrams went back and forth until eventually the
term of, "Chosen
majority leader of the Southern Irish people," was introduced by
David Lloyd - George and
Eamonn de Valera then backed off from the
permanent
Sovereign State position.
September:
Due to the Anglo - Irish
Truce,
Michael Collins was now physically
able, but at great risk to himself, to address the voters in
his other elected seat in
Co.
Armagh
in the south - east of the
Ulster Province on all the matters related to
the British Government's continuing
hold on
Ireland.
September 29th:
David Lloyd - George
the British Prime Minister
gave up and ended his correspondence with
Eamonn de Valera, which he
felt had produced no basis for any further talks, which he could accept, to
hold an Anglo - Irish Conference and there would certainly be no recognition
of a Sovereign State and said
that he was ready to make a new start and hold a Conference in
London on
11th October,
"To decide how Ireland and
Britain
may be reconciled with Irish National interests,"
and the 2nd Dail
Eireann Cabinet
accepted his offer. +On to 1921 - 7 - October - November
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