Abstract
Between the 1916 Easter Rising and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921, the nationalist project in Ireland reached its apotheosis with the emergence of an effective mass movement for an Irish Republic that achieved a remarkable degree of unity even as it accommodated a diverse collection of interests. Six months into the fragile truce with Britain, the Sinn Fein movement (as it was known) began to fracture as differences within it arose over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the political settlement that set up a 26-county ‘Irish Free State’. By the middle of 1922, southern Ireland had erupted into a bitter and destructive year-long civil war fought amongst rival nationalists that ended with the pro-treaty or Free State camp’s victory over its anti-treaty or republican opponents.
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