Dorothy Macardle (1889–1958) is best known for writing the first full-scale account of the Irish revolutionary period from an anti-Treaty viewpoint, The Irish Republic (1937). She was a key Sinn Féin and, after 1926, Fianna Fáil, propagandist centrally immersed in the changing discourse and debate as to what constituted an authentic republican nation and how it could and should be achieved. This chapter examines Macardle’s fervent opposition to partition through an examination of her journalism and her perspective in The Irish Republic on the growing threat of a border in the period after 1916. The latter work emphasizes her belief that the treaty delegates were manipulated by the perfidious Lloyd George and were remiss in not ‘telephoning to Dublin’ before acceptance of the articles of agreement. Macardle’s clear objective was not to write a balanced history of the period. She was a politician and propagandist before she was a historian. Her intention was to validate a specific political stance during the revolutionary period, with particular reference to partition, the Treaty split and Civil War.

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