| | Eamon De Valera & the Fianna Fail |
 | | De Valera was released under an amnesty in 1917, and elected president of both Sinn Fein and the Irish Volunteers, political and military groups, respectively, opposed to British rule. |
 | | De Valera had secured the support of a small party called the National League, which was actually the still-surviving rump of the old Irish Parliamentary Party, but which had decided that de Valera was the coming man and it would be prudent to be on his side. |
 | | De Valera claimed there was no contractual obligation to pay the annuities, and that the three million pounds involved could be used to relieve farmers 'completely of the rates on their holdings'. |
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