Mick Clifford: Who fears to speak of a forgotten independence day?

Having three Cabinet members photographed looking at a digitised version of history is about as serious as the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty gets

Members of the Irish delegation at the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on December 6, 1921.  Picture: Getty Images

Monday is the 100th anniversary of one of the most momentous days in Irish history.

On December 6, 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in Downing Street. It provided a degree of freedom to this country that could not even have been imagined as recently as six years earlier.