‘truce’ to the bloody and violent Irish War of Independence emerged in July 1921, as the British Government under David Lloyd George and the Irish Republic under Éamon de Valera both began to explore their options for peace and the future. Both men, through numerous letters to each other, found common ground in wanting to broker a long-lasting peace. However, they both held opposing views of what this peace and future would look like, with de Valera holding firm to the
