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Dev/Collins Pact

  • 25-07-2011 06:00PM
    #1
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,263 ✭✭✭


    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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  • #2
    patsman07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭patsman07


    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.


  • #3
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,263 ✭✭✭jos28


    Cheers Patsman, that explains it nicely. Thanks !


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