When the Irish negotiators returned I to Dublin they wait de. nounced by de valda alli otner ministers. An Irish civil war followed (although in , sense it was a further phase of the War of Independence), helping the pro-treaty side to vicfor Eventually the South of Ireland state was to win complete political independence from Britain. Twenty years later the oath of allegiance and the British use of Irish ports rescinded, 1949 the Commonwealth.
The outstanding matter corner The boundary commis sion, when it finally reported five al LC the treaty, accepted partition as it was Throughout the negotiations which them, many in the British Govern ment would have preferred to see a united Ireland being But they did not force the Loyalists accept the majority verdict of the Irish people.
It would have been relativel easy to do. Almost all of 'Ulster's imposed and collected throughout UK; a withdrawal of these revenues would have Killed "Nor. thern Ireland' stone dead.