RE: poppop17 Nov 2018 00:18
correction...
It was the signed Anglo-Irish treaty (not a referendum) that started a civil war between Irish republicans and Irish nationalists,
Michael Collins, the republican leader who had led the Irish negotiating team, argued that the treaty gave "not the ultimate freedom that all nations aspire and develop, but the freedom to achieve freedom". However, anti-treaty militants in 1922 believed that the treaty would never deliver full Irish independence.[10]