Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Conflict episode
The IRA waged a guerrilla war against British Crown forces from January 1919 to the July 1921 truce; published casualty figures vary, with roughly 491 IRA and 506 Crown Force deaths cited alongside 919 civilian deaths logged across the wider 1917-1921 period.
Significance here: The armed conflict whose truce led directly to the negotiations producing the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
· Agreement
British and Irish delegations signed the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland in London on 6 December 1921, ending the Irish War of Independence and providing for the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion.
Significance here: Ended the Irish War of Independence and set out the constitutional basis for the Irish Free State.
· Conflict episode
A civil war between pro-Treaty and anti-Treaty forces followed the Treaty's ratification, lasting from June 1922 to May 1923; academic research has documented 1,426 violent deaths in the twenty-six counties of the Free State.
Significance here: The internal conflict over the Treaty's terms that followed independence and shaped the new state's early politics.
· Declaration
The Constitution of the Irish Free State came into legal effect on 6 December 1922, one year after the Treaty was signed, establishing the Irish Free State as a self-governing dominion.
Significance here: The formal legal establishment of the Irish Free State as a dominion, superseding British direct rule.
· Declaration
The Republic of Ireland Act, 1948 came into operation on 18 April 1949, declaring that the description of the state would be the Republic of Ireland and repealing the External Relations Act, thereby ending the state's remaining formal constitutional links to the British Crown.
Significance here: Ended the state's remaining formal constitutional link to the British Crown and declared it a republic.
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