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Online, Wednesday 8th December
On 8th December 1921, following the return from London by the Irish Delegation, the Cabinet of Dáil Éireann gathered in the Drawing Room of the Mansion House to discuss the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Present that day were Cabinet members Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Austin Stack, Cathal Brugha, Michael Collins, Liam T. MacCosgair and Robert Barton. Joining them were the other two signatories of the Treaty Éamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy, as well as advisers Erskine Childers and Diarmuid O'Hegarty who had accompanied the Irish delegation to London. Also present throughout the day were Lord Mayor Laurence O'Neill, Press Officer Frank Gallagher and Assistant Minister Kevin O'Higgins.
On 8th December 2021 Lord Mayor of Dublin Alison Gilliland will commemorate the centenary of this historic meeting by hosting an online lecture by Dublin City Council Historian in Residence Cormac Moore which will be broadcast from the same room the meeting took place in – 100 years ago.
- Date:
- Wednesday 8th December
- Time:
- Price:
- Free
