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The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the government of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. [2]
The Eire (Confirmation of Agreements) Act 1938 [a] (1 & 2 Geo. 6.c. 25) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 17 May 1938. [1] It was the British implementing measure for the 1938 Anglo-Irish Agreements which were signed at London on 25 April 1938 by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on 6 December 1921 and narrowly ratified by Dáil Éireann (the Irish Parliament) on 7 January 1922. [1] [2]Although the Treaty was negotiated by Michael Collins, the de facto leader of the IRA, and had been approved by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the IRA's senior ranking officers were deeply divided over the decision of the Dáil to ratify the Treaty.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London on 6 December 1921 and Dáil Éireann voted to approve the treaty on 7 January 1922, following a debate through late December 1921 and into January 1922. The vote was 64 in favour, 57 against, with the Ceann Comhairle and 3 others not voting.
The treaty abolished the 20% tariffs that both the United Kingdom and Ireland placed on their respective imported goods. Ireland was also to pay a final one time £10 million sum to the United Kingdom for the "land annuities" derived from financial loans originally granted to Irish tenant farmers by the British government to enable them purchase lands under the Land Acts pre-1922, a provision ...
The British-Irish Agreement was a 1985 treaty between the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, shortly Britain, and the Republic of Ireland, shortly Ireland, which aimed to help bring an end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [1]
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The signatures page of the 1922 Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed showing the signatures of the British and Irish delegation. The separate Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland were now abolished, and replaced by a united Parliament of the United Kingdom.