Anglo Irish Treaty

Anglo-Irish Treaty

Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland
Signature page
Signed	6 December 1921
Location	10 Downing Street, London
Effective	31 March 1922, fully implemented on 6 December 1922
Condition	Creation of the Irish Free State, later Ireland
Signatories	Irish Republic  United Kingdom
Languages	English
Text of the Treaty

Treaty of Union	1706
Acts of Union	1707
Personal Union of 1714	1714
Wales and Berwick Act	1746
Irish Constitution	1782
Acts of Union	1800
Government of Ireland Act	1920
Anglo-Irish Treaty	1921
Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act	1927
N. Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act	1972
European Communities Act	1972
Local Government Act	1972
Local Government (Scotland) Act	1973
Northern Ireland Assembly	1973
N. Ireland Constitution Act	1973
Referendum Act	1975
Scotland Act	1978
Wales Act	1978
Local Government (Wales) Act	1994
Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act	1994
Referendums (Scotland & Wales) Act	1997
Good Friday Agreement	1998
Northern Ireland Act	1998
Government of Wales Act	1998
Scotland Act	1998
Government of Wales Act	2006
Northern Ireland Act	2009
European Union Act	2011
Scotland Act	2012
Edinburgh Agreement	2012
Wales Act	2014
European Union Referendum Act	2015
Scotland Act	2016
Wales Act	2017

 Irish Republic

The Anglo-Irish Treaty (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. It provided for the establishment of the Irish Free State within a year as a self-governing dominion within the "community of nations known as the British Empire", a status "the same as that of the Dominion of Canada". It also provided Northern Ireland, which had been created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, an option to opt out of the Irish Free State, which it exercised.

The agreement was signed in London on 6 December 1921, by representatives of the British government (which included Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who was head of the British delegates) and by representatives of the Irish Republic including Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. The Irish representatives had plenipotentiary status (negotiators empowered to sign a treaty without reference back to their superiors) acting on behalf of the Irish Republic, though the British government declined to recognise that status. As required by its terms, the agreement was ratified by "a meeting" of the members elected to sit in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and [separately] by the British Parliament. In reality, Dáil Éireann (the legislative assembly for the de facto Irish Republic) first debated then ratified the treaty; members then went ahead with the "meeting". Though the treaty was narrowly ratified, the split led to the Irish Civil War, which was won by the pro-treaty side.

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