1921 AD - 4 / June 

                                                                                                                                              "Anglo - Irish Truce Muted" 

1921 AD June: The British Imperial Coalition Government went ahead with their Council of Ireland, who were appointed from within their proposed, Northern Ireland, the 6 Counties"artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, which was now fully under the control of the Ascendancy "Official"Unionists, but no "representatives" were appointed from their proposed Southern Ireland  26 Counties election.

June 13th: General Smuts the Prime Minister of South Africa arrived from London intending to meet with Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 2nd Dail  Eireann / 2nd Irish Assembly secretly, to try and encourage him to reach a South African style agreement, similar to the one that General Smuts himself had made with the British Empire after the "Boer War" and contact was made for General Smuts through Eamonn Duggan who was still incarcerated in "Mountjoy Prison" in Dublin who advised Eamonn de Valera that he wanted him to make a direct approach to him personally and also put it in writing. 

June 14th: Sean Mac Eoin who was the I. R.A. Longford Brigade Commander in Co. Longford the north - west of Northern Leinster was "charged" before a British Court Martial who summarily sentenced him to "death," and it was now up to Michael Collins to work out a way to "save" him from being "executed," but all attempts in the future to free him were to fail, and his conviction had been brought about due to a previous attempt by a Dublin Castle R.I.C police Inspector and 10 other Dublin Castle R.I.C police who had tried to arrest him while he was on his own and the Dublin Castle's R.I.C "Black & Tan" police Inspector had been "killed" and it had been an insight into his ability and respect at the time as an individual Irish Volunteer / IRA member when he had been able to initially "escape" from their ambush, but was later wounded and "captured."

     General Smuts the Prime Minister of South Africa now contacted David Lloyd - George the British Prime Coalition Minister advising him to use the opportunity of the opening of the British Imperial Government's Northern Ireland Stormont parliament composed of the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province to announce the foreshadowing of granting "Dominion" status in Ireland similar to what had been done in South Africa and it even included a draft of the announcement he could make.

June 22nd: David Lloyd - George, the British Imperial Coalition Prime Minister and the British Cabinet had now re - arranged the "geography" of Ireland by "artificially partitioning" the 6 Counties from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province that the previous English Ascendancy Governments had "confiscated" and planted on an "ethnic sectarian" basis with a majority of non - Catholics and overtime with the various "confiscations" and the use of either "death or exile" this had brought about an Irish Catholic 1/ 3rd minority in this part of their own ancient territorial lands in the Ulster Province. This "ethnic and sectarian Imperialism" had been carried out to appease their "bruised egos" and continue on with the Ascendancy, and under British Imperial Law it became known to them as Northern Ireland and it's Ascendancy parliament was opened at Stormont in a Belfast suburb in Co. Antrim in the north - east of Ulster by George V. the German Saxe - Coburg King of Britain who made an appeal for peace there. Hugh O Neill was elected as their speaker under the 40 majority Ulster "Official" Unionists while Joseph Devlin had also been "elected" there as one of the minority 12 Irish Nationalist M.P.'s. All of the Catholic Irish Bishops produced a joint statement calling for "all" the people of Ireland, who were the actual majority, to be given the chance to choose their "own" government in their "own" Country, not one thrust on them by the British Imperial Government.

      Eamonn de Valera the elected Priomh Aire of the 2nd Dail Eireann / 2nd Irish Assembly was now "captured" at Glenvar carrying official 2nd Dail Eireann documents and taken to Bridewell were Sir Alfred Cope the British Coalition Government's Assistant Under - Secretary came to see him and had him placed in "Portobello Barracks."       

June 23rd: Realising that the British Imperial Government could "not" negotiate with Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 2nd Dail Eireann if he was in one of their "prisons" Sir Alfred Cope then had to persuade the reluctant Sir Neville Mac Ready the British Coalition Government's appointed Military Commander in Chief in Ireland to "release him," as David Lloyd - George the British Prime Minister had also given instructions for his immediate release as they needed him "free" if they were going to negotiate an "Anglo - Irish Truce" and hopefully eventually a settlement. He was then released and he met with Michael Collins, Cathal Brugha and Austin Stack, and he now considered that his "political usefulness" was at an end, as it seemed the British Government was going to allow him to go wherever he wanted, but Sean O Hegarty reminded him not to forget that the Dublin Castle's "Murder Squad" were still out and about carrying out their neurotic operations.

June 24th: In the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province the British Kings Calvary escort was "blown" up and 4 Unionists were "killed" in Newry, while a mail train was raided in the Clogher Valley, and Belfast itself was "under fire" and "riots" as the population there responded to the "artificial partition" of Ireland by the British Imperial Government and David Lloyd - George the British Coalition Prime Minister was now well aware of the great loss of strength of the Dublin Castle's R.I.C. / Royal Irish Constabulary police in Ireland who they had used previously as their British "watchdogs," and he now desperately wanted to improve relations with the "elected" members of the 2nd Dail Eireann / 2nd Irish Assembly. He invited Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 2nd Dail Eireann and Sir James Craig the Ulster "Official"Unionist leader to discuss the ongoing issues in Ireland with him as per the British King's previous instructions, guaranteeing him safe conduct. Eamonn de Valera realising that he was now "recognized" "officialy" by the British Coalition Government as the head of the 2nd Dail Eireann, who had now also gained respect, and that he was no longer the "leader of rats," "murderers" and "gunmen," as previously described by Sir Henry Wilson, now set up his office in the Mansion House in Dublin. He sent invitations to the various Ulster "Official" Unionist leaders, Sir James Craig, the Earl of Midleton, Sir Maurice Dockerell, Sir Robert H. Woods and Andrew Jameson to gage their outlook prior to meeting with David Lloyd - George the British Coalition Prime Minister believing that they all needed to be aware of their differences, which first should be adjusted on Irish soil hoping to find a common principle to exist in Ireland in "Peace. " 

      With the official British Imperial Government's "artificial partition" of Ireland into 2 separate parts, the I.R.A. began their "campaign" in the Ulster Province to try and bring a "quick end" to the "artificial partition" of Ireland there and the return of the 6 Catholic "minority" Counties to the other 3 Counties there and therefore to the "whole" being the 32 Counties of Ireland.

    The British Imperial Government at this point in time had a 40,000 British Military Force stationed in Ireland, together with the Metropolitan Police and the R.I.C. police to bolster their overall hold over the population in Ireland, together with the dreaded "Auxiliaries" who were ex - British Army Officers and the "Black & Tans" ex - British soldiers, to further enforce their Military control over Ireland.     

June 25th: Dr. Mulhern the Irish Catholic Bishop of Dromore in the Ulster Province delivered a letter to Eamonn de Valera from David Lloyd - George the British Coalition Prime Minister who advised him that he wanted to hold a "Conference" in London with the representatives of both the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province and the other 26 Counties in Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster Provinces.

June 27th: Erskine Childers was also "arrested" by the British Imperial Government Forces, but he was then immediately "released" because of the compromises to be made to bring about an "Anglo - Irish Truce" between the British Imperial Government and the 2nd Dail Eireann / 2nd Irish Assembly.

June 28th: The British Imperial Government's other divided Southern Ireland, composed of the other 26 Counties, also "artificially partitioned" parliament, was now also called on by the British Imperial Government to meet, but only the 4 Unionists from the "Trinity College," which was a Unionist stronghold there, turned up and they then had to adjourn due to the lack of numbers as it was "not recognized" by the "majority" elected members of  the "political" Sinn Fein Party, and this then brought more pressure to bear on David Lloyd - George the British Coalition Prime Minister, to bring about a further "compromise."

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