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Copy of letter from William O’Brien, Mallow, to Éamon de Valera. Dated 5 February 1926. Author outlines his thoughts on the latest 'Treaty': "The astounding thing is that the country is asked to accept the shameful deed not merely with resignation but as an actual National victory, and to celebrate as an evidence of 'the new spirit' the rejoicings of Sir James Craig and his friends over the concession to them by the only legal authority pretending to speak for Ireland, of the utmost measure of ascendancy they ever aspired to in their wildest dreams. [...] I should have preferred bringing about the reunion of Ireland in a very different way [...] but reunion there shall be, or everlasting strife."