Eamon de Valera and the Road to Anglo-Irish Treaty on December 6, 1921

The main research goal of the lecture is to recall the role of de Valera as the leader of the united nationalist movement in Ireland in 1917-1921. De Valera's conceptual and practical contribution to settling the Irish national question at that time did not meet his expectations, even though on December 6, 1921, the Treaty known as the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London. From that moment on, de Valera became the leader of the anti-Treaty republican opposition, which meant the end of the unity of Sinn Fein, the largest party in the Irish nationalist movement. The author analyzes the stages of operation of this policy in the above-mentioned period, as well as the concepts he put forward regarding the status of the Irish state as a political and legal entity in its formative phase.