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Eammon DeVelera

step towards the achievement of Irish sovereignty must be qualified by relevant background information. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of Britain, responded to the rebellion by initiating negotiations with the leaders of Sinn Feinn (Irish revolutionary political party) over a possible "home rule settlement". In the fall of 1917 Eamon De Valera assumed the presidency of Sinn Feinn and the Volunteers and led the party in a boycott of Lloyd George's Irish Convention of March 1918. De Valera's boycott served to swell support for the party. After escaping from prison, De Valera assumed the presidency of the first Dail Eirann in January of 1919. After the formation of the Dail Eirann, Michael Collin's Irish Republican Army began a guerrilla war on the British government within Ireland. Lloyd George responded to the assault with the Government of Ireland Act, which created the distinct Irish parliaments of Dublin and Ulster. Upon return from fundraising efforts in America, Eamon De Valera faced the challenge of finding a peaceful resolution to the fighting while continuing the struggle for independence from Britain. The truce reached in July 1921 began the peace conferences that changed the course of Irish history. The correspondence between De Valera and Lloyd George that preceded the negotiations clearly outlined the points of contention for each party. In his first letter, responding to an invitation to attend the conference, De Valera writes "we most earnestly desire to help in bringing about a lasting peace between the peoples of these two islands, but see no avenue by which it can be reached if you deny Ireland's essential unity and set aside the principle of national self-determination". In these lines, De Valera presented the ideology that dominated his leadership in Ireland. There would be no compromise if doing so would required Ireland to forfeit it's right to national supremacy. Lloyd George, in a subsequent let...

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