Today -100: July 19, 1921: Of near misses and cheese fires

Irish President Éamon de Valera and Northern Irish PM Sir James Craig have separate meetings at 10 Downing Street with Lloyd George and are even in the building at the same time for seven full minutes, but don’t meet. Craig is going to leave London to make sure they don’t. He says Southern Ireland can come to whatever agreement it wants with London, it’s nuffing to do with us, mate. Craig rejects the idea of a unified Ireland, even with great autonomy (de Valera treating the six counties as a distinct political entity is already a considerable compromise). In 2021, we “celebrated” the centenary of the division of Ireland, but in 1921 they’re only just beginning to realize that that was what happened, that the two parts of Ireland will be governed as if they were separate entities.

I haven’t been reading the stories, but the trial of the “Black Sox” baseball players for throwing the 1919 World Series is going on.

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