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Document of the day - 22nd April

Volume 5
No. 171
Eamon de Valera ()

Conclusion of British-Irish negotiations
22nd April 1938

On board Holyhead to Dún Laoghaire Mailboat
Everything that makes for a better understanding between people is to be welcomed - particularly in the world conditions of today.
The Agreement which has just been signed between the representatives of the Irish and British peoples will I believe be universally received in that spirit. It removes the existing, and the more dangerous potential causes of quarrel between the two countries - all except one. Unfortunately that one outstanding, the partition of our national territory, is that on which the I. people feel most keenly.