The Mick Clifford Podcast: 100 years on, what is the legacy of the Anglo-Irish Treaty?

Did the Treaty really represent, as Michael Collins claimed at the time, the freedom to achieve freedom?

Arthur Griffith, EJ Duggan, Erskine Childers (standing) and Michael Collins at the signing of the Irish Free State Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, London, England, December 6, 1921. File Picture: Mansell/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Exactly a century ago on 6 December, the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London. 

The document for the first time recognised Ireland’s right to independence, albeit under particular conditions.