The signing of the Anglo Irish treaty in 1921 opened up a chasm in Irish politics that wouldn’t really close for nearly a century. In this episode of the Irish Examiner series on the Civil War, we talk to historian and journalist David McCullagh about the politics that led up to the conflict, how politics was sidelined while the guns were firing and what kind of political firmament emerged when the smoke cleared on the newly established free state.

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