The Treaty

It threatened the British Empire, and left the Irish with only each other to fight.

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.

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Brendan Gleeson

(Michael Collins)

Barry McGovern

(Eamon de Valera)

Patrick Condren

(Liam Tobin)

Ian Bannen

(David Lloyd George)

Julian Fellowes

(Winston Churchill)

Malcolm Douglas

(Harry Boland)

Dave Duffy

(Joe McGrath)

Joshua Losey

(Roadblock Captain)

Richard Michaelis

(Roadblock Sergeant)

Liam O'Callaghan

(Sir Henry Wilson)

Anne Byrne

(Frances Stevenson)

Tim Wylton

(Tom Jones)

John Warner

(King George V)

Wesley Murphy

(British Civil Servant)

Mal Whyte

(Colonel)

Alan Stanford

(Lord Birkenhead)

Alan Barry

(Austen Chamberlain)

David Carey

(Austin Stack)

Bosco Hogan

(Erskine Childers)

Ronan Wilmot

(Cathay Brugha)

Tony Doyle

(Arthur Griffith)

Brian McGrath

(Robert Barton)

Tom Lawler

(Batt O’Connor)

Sheila Flitton

(Woman 1)

Anna Manahan

(Woman 2)

Laurie Morton

(Woman 3)

Peadar Lamb

(Sir John Lavery)

Ann Thornton

(Hazel Lavery)

David Wilmot

(Niall)

Jill Doyle

(Waitress 1)

Aisling Flitton

(Waitress 2)

John Olohan

(Sean O’Murthuile)

Owen Roe

(George Gavan Duffy)

Tom Hickey

(Eamonn Duggan)

Rachel Dowling

(Kathleen MacKenna)

Barry Cassin

(Butler)

Pat Laffan

(Bishop)

Christopher Casson

(Lord French)