Extracts from Liam Mellows’s speech to the Dáil during the Treaty debates warning that ‘the government of the Free State will, with those who support it now liking it or not, eventually occupy the same relation towards the people of Ireland as Dublin Castle does today, because it will be the barrier government between the British and Irish people’. ‘Appeal for National Unity’ issued by the Hon. Secretary for the Committee for ‘National Unity’, 16 Suffolk Street, Dublin. IRB circular signed S.C., 12 Dec. 1921, stating that the Supreme Council ‘has decided that the present peace treaty between Ireland and Great Britain should be ratified’. ‘The Organisation and the New Political Situation in Ireland’ which discusses the above statement. Signed by order of the Supreme Council, 12 Jan. 1922.