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800Years IrishPolitical, Literary&MilitaryHistory - 15thApril2014
165 DININGFOR IRELAND: dayfourofthe ‘Truce’, July1921
A postcard showing theGrosvenorHotel in London dated July 15 1921, signed
bymembers of the Irishdelegationwhichwent toLondon immediately after the
‘Truce’ came into force for preliminarydiscussionswithLloydGeorge andoth-
ers. The signatories include [President] Eamon deValera; Art Ua Briain [Sinn
Fein representative in London]; ‘Il Conte S.N. O Pluingceid’ [Count George
Noble Plunkett]; L. O’Neill [LordMayor ofDublin]; RiobárdBartún [later a re-
luctant Treaty signatory]; Aibhistín de Staic [Austin Stack]; and Art ó Gríob-
htha [Griffith]; and in the other column Caitlín ní Chonaill, Erskine Childers
and Lilí ní Bhraonáin, presumably in a secretarial capacity, over the words
‘Ag dinear ann so / Iúl 15 1921’. With two other unsigned cards of the period.
Asuperbmemento,andafinecollectionofsignatures. TheTrucewasfinalisedon
9July,aftermuchdetailednegotiationof itsterms,andcame intoforceonMonday
11July. TheIrishdelegationcrossed toLondon the followingday. Thesignificant
namemissing is that ofCollins, whodecided to stay in the shadows a bit longer.
Provenance: by familydescent fromoneof the signatories.
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