{"id":170524,"date":"2025-12-02T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170524\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:54:09","slug":"patrick-mcgarty-a-betrayal-of-nationalists-the-untold-story-behind-irelands-partition-agreement-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170524\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McGarty: \u2018A betrayal of nationalists\u2019 \u2013 the untold story behind Ireland\u2019s partition agreement 100 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Instead of dismantling the Border, as nationalists had envisaged, the 1925 Boundary Commission document seemed to confirm it. It was to be a defining moment in Irish history\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President of the executive council of the Irish Free State, WT Cosgrave. Photo: Corbis via Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages_613512426.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">President of the executive council of the Irish Free State, WT Cosgrave. Photo: Corbis via Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One hundred years ago, on December 3, 1925, the president of the executive council of the Irish Free State, WT Cosgrave, Britain\u2019s prime minister Stanley Baldwin and Stormont premier James Craig signed an agreement that ended nearly a month of frantic negotiations which ultimately copper-fastened the 500km Irish border established nearly four years earlier in December 1921 as part of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To many nationalists, an arrangement like this was never envisaged when the Irish negotiating team, led by Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins at the Treaty negotiations in 1921, agreed to the insertion of Article 12 into the Treaty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Instead of dismantling the Border, as nationalists had envisaged, the 1925 Boundary Commission document seemed to confirm it.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94267,61,60,26913,43,2443],"class_list":{"0":"post-170524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-arthur-griffith","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-michael-collins","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-northern-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}