>Refuses to go to treaty negotiations with the British>Throws a bitch-fit when the Treaty doesn't go his way, to the point of helping instigate the Irish Civil WarSeriously, what the fuck was his problem?
>>16892196Just papist things
>>16892225The Church indirectly supported the treaty
I thought the reason he avoided the Treaty negotiations was so he could avoid the fallout of being part of it
>>16892266Church is irrelevant, typical papist infighting is.
>>16892326this
>>16892326That's what it seems like, but he went the extra mile to denounce everyone involved and everyone in the Dail that supported it.
>>16892225Catholic Church generally supported the British administration until the revolution was underway, at which point they threw their weight behind the more conservative (Pro-British) faction.>>16892326It was. Remember that Dev was opposed to the IRA's campaign for most of the War of Independence, then suddenly tried to position himself as a political leader of the IRA toward the end of the Civil War to save his own political career.>>16892413>Church is irrelevantThe Church was one of the most important institutions in Ireland and held an utterly immense amount of influence. Both the Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches played a unique role in the revolutionary period. Methodists too, but to a lesser extent.>>16892478Of course when that didn't work, and when trying to "lead the IRA" didn't work, he sat and moped for a few years before shrugging and accepting the Treaty via Fianna Fáil to "republicanise the Free State from within." Dev (see; other members of Fianna Fáil) helped strip away some aspects of Empire but in reality they were just redecorating the Free State rather than actually furthering Republican ideals. I am sure in the 1940s when people celebrated "Republic Day" in Dublin that the countless Irish nationalists annexed in Northern Ireland sat back happily knowing that their worries were over.God I hate De Valera so much
