“I am against this Treaty not because I am a man of war but because I am a man of peace. I am against this Treaty because it will not end the centuries of conflict between the two nations of Great Britain and Ireland.”

—  Éamon de Valera

(18 December 1921).
I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

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