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    Aug 02, 2022 3 minutes

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    We Hold Ourselves Bound

    Following the death of Arthur Griffith from natural causes on 12 August 1922 and the assassination of Michael Collins ten days later—both men signatories and supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty—Winston Churchill wrote W. T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Committee of the Irish Free State on 24 August.

    LONDON—I take the earliest opportunity in this hour of tragedy for Ireland and of intense difficulty for the Irish Provisional Government of assuring you of the confidence which is felt by the British Government that the Treaty provision will be

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