Editing Irish Free State (section)

==Irish Civil War==
{{Main|Irish Civil War}}
[[File:Crowds at funeral procession of Michael Collins Dublin 1922 (6088554764).jpg|300px|thumb|Funeral procession of Michael Collins, Dublin, 1922]]
The compromises contained in the agreement caused the civil war in the 26 counties in June 1922 – April 1923, in which the pro-Treaty [[Provisional Government of Ireland (1922)|Provisional Government]] defeated the anti-Treaty Republican forces. The latter were led, nominally, by [[Éamon de Valera]], who had resigned as President of the Republic on the treaty's ratification. His resignation outraged some of his own supporters, notably [[Seán T. O'Kelly]], the main Sinn Féin organiser. On resigning, he then sought re-election but was defeated two days later on a vote of 60–58. The pro-Treaty Arthur Griffith followed as President of the Irish Republic. Michael Collins was chosen at a meeting of the members elected to sit in the [[Parliament of Southern Ireland|House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] (a body set up under the Government of Ireland Act 1920) to become [[Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State]] in accordance with the Treaty. The [[1922 Irish general election|general election]] in June gave overwhelming support for the pro-Treaty parties. [[W. T. Cosgrave]]'s Crown-appointed Provisional Government effectively subsumed Griffith's republican administration with the death of both Collins and Griffith in August 1922.<ref>Michael Hopkinson, ''Green Against Green–The Irish Civil War: A History of the Irish Civil War, 1922–1923'' (Gill & Macmillan, 2004) [https://books.google.com/books?id=BO34AwAAQBAJ&dq=Irish+Civil+War&pg=PT7 online]. </ref>