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Dev/Collins Pact

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  • 25-07-2011 6:00pm
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    jos28
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    Having a bit of bother understanding the Dev/Collins Pact and the significance of it. Could some kind person explain it to me please (in words of one syllable ;) )


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    patsman07
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    My understanding of it is that the pact was agreed for the 1922 election. It meant that existing Sinn Fein TD's would run un-opposed despite the fact that the treaty had torn the party in two. This meant that deV could keep the large minority of anti-treaty sinn fein TD's that he led. Had the pact not have happened, he would probably have lost out badly to pro-treaty opponents. Collins was desperate to avoid civil war and the pact was a measure to appease his anti-treaty oppponents.


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    jos28
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    Cheers Patsman, that explains it nicely. Thanks !


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