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Signature page from the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 From the National Archives of Ireland at [1]

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...months from the date hereof.

18. This instrument shall be submitted forthwith by His Majesty’s Government for the approval of Parliament and by the Irish signatories to a meeting summoned for the purpose of the members elected to sit in the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and if approved shall be ratified by the necessary legislation.

On behalf of the British delegation: On behalf of the Irish delegation:
D. Lloyd George Art Ó Griobhtha    Arthur Griffith
Austen Chamberlain Mícheál Ó Coileáin
Birkenhead Riobárd Bartún
Winston S. Churchill E.S Ó Dugain
L Worthington-Evans Seórsa Ghabháin Uí Dhubhthaigh
Hamar Greenwood
Gordon Hewart

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