The Truce ends the fighting in Ireland
1921 · Event
At noon the guns stop: Britain, unable to crush the IRA without a war its public won't stomach, and an IRA nearly out of ammunition, agree a truce. Five months of negotiation follow, ending in London — with de Valera, crucially, choosing to stay home from the treaty conference.
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