Sinn Fein Ard Fheis
Hopkinson says Ard Fheis took place on 22nd and 23rd and Macardle says it started on 22nd.
Denis McCullough tells the Ard Fheis that “While they were making up their minds on the Treaty their people in the North were being murdered day by day”. Phoenix says that the pleas of the 300 Ulster delegates to maintain unity (in the face of the violence directed against nationalists in the north-east) were one of the main factors influencing the compromise outlined above. Hopkinson says that there was an implicit assumption that the constitution would be republican in character.