
A CHALLENGE: Rewriting Arthur Griffith’s role in the Treaty negotiations
For nearly ninety years, Frank Pakenham’s 1935 account of the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks in London (Peace by Ordeal) has dominated the narrative of what happened in 1921 and subsequently. It is challenged robustly and at length here by Prof. Colum Kenny, a recent biographer of Arthur Griffith, with particular reference …