Anglo-Irish Treaty the subject of next historical society lecture

The negotiation of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty – the signing of which took place 100 years ago next month – will be the subject of Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society’s next lecture.

The online talk, entitled ‘Negotiating the Treaty, October-December 1921’, will be delivered by historian Dr John Gibney via the Zoom platform on Wednesday November 17 at 8pm.

Dr Gibney will outline how the Treaty – which led to the establishment of the Irish Free State – was negotiated and who negotiated it. In advance of the National Archives’ forthcoming centenary exhibition on the Treaty, how the agreement came into being will be explored through the visual and documentary record left behind by those who negotiated it.

Moate-based John Gibney is Assistant Editor with the Royal Irish Academy’s Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series and is co-author (with Kate O’Malley) of The Handover: Dublin Castle and the British withdrawal from Ireland, 1922 (forthcoming; Royal Irish Academy, 2022).

Dr Gibney was centrally involved in the development of the National Archives’ forthcoming exhibition on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, due to open in Dublin Castle on the centenary of the signing of the Treaty on December 6.

The lecture is supported by Westmeath County Council, and for further details or to obtain the Zoom link, email obriains@gmail.com or log on to www.whahs.ie.