O’Higgins was demonised by many who opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty that established the State
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for the execution policy of the State’s first government nor an indictment of those who followed Éamon de Valera to take up arms against it. He rehearses the moral arguments with clarity and even-handedness. Those who reject the Treaty will not accept the Dáil vote to ratify it on the grounds that a majority has no right to do wrong. Those who support it insist that democracy must prevail, even if it is to cost thousands of lives, as WT Cosgrave argued.
“It was hard to believe that such a ruthless and savage killing had been carried out by the father of the gentle nun quietly chatting to my mother in our livingroom,” Mathews writes.
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