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Treaty Papers & Records - Truce Delegates

The Truce delegation led by Eamon deValera July 1921

Composition of the delegation was as follows: De Valera, Griffith, Stack and Barton. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Count Plunkett and Erskine Childers accompanied the delegation. The Truce had already been negotiated and agreed to by both parties and was in force since 11 July 1921, a day before the delegation left for the London conference. The photo of the delegation sent to England appeared in the Irish Independent on 15th July 1921. It was taken in the Grosvenor Hotel London. The man behind Griffith is Robert Barton. The three women are a Mrs Farnam, whose doctor husband is the other man in the picture beside the Lord Mayor, and the two delegation secretaries, Miss Lily O'Brennan (sister-in-law of Eamonn Ceannt) and Miss Kathleen O'Connell (also secretary to de Valera from 1920 until her death in 1956).

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