How the Examiner covered the ratification of the Treaty in 1922

Leaders of the first Dáil in 1919 including, side-by-side in the front row, Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith. and Éamon de Valera. A short few years later, they were at war after the bitter split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Picture: General Photographic Agency/Getty

On January 7, 1922, the Dáil voted to ratify the Anglo-Irish Treaty, marking one of the most significant events in this island’s history.

While it paved the way for Ireland to become a self-governing state it also set the wheels in motion for what would lead to the Civil War just six months later.