"I fail to see the relevance of your reference to Peter Beresford Ellis's work. Both North and South had birth pains in the South a totally unnecessary Civil War broke out"
Ellis'd description referred to pogroms against Catholics whch took place before the Treaty was signed and before the Civil War broke out and that took place in the South.
As the Thames Television book goes to great length to describe, those pogroms went on to the end of the 1950s in the north - the boycott of Catholic labour was a permanent feature of life there and violent Anti-Catholic riots were annual events.
The secret changing of the treaty from temporary to permanent invalidate the Treaty and brought down the Pro Home Rule group in Parliament - it was the end of any support Britain had in Ireland apart from the Unionists.
Jim Carroll

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