Editing Seán MacEntee (section)

===Path to civil war===
From April 1921, when MacEntee was transferred to [[Dublin]] to direct a special anti-partition campaign in connection with the May general election. It remained Collins's policy, he declared, that the largely Protestant shipyard workers of Belfast were being directed by the British, urging all Irishmen to rejoin the Republic.<ref>Coogan, Tim Pat, "Michael Collins", p.357, cited by Townshend, p.378.</ref> Correspondingly the Ulster Unionist Council rejected the call for a review of the boundary commission decision made on Northern Ireland. But when Ulstermen chose [[James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon|James Craig]] as Premier, Collins denounced democracy in the north as a sham.<ref>Collins and Craig had a meeting at the Colonial Office, London, on 21 January 1922.</ref> It was on the partition of Ireland issue that MacEntee voted against the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] of 1921.<ref>[http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.T.192112220002.html Dáil Éireann – Volume 3 – 22 December 1921, Debate on Treaty] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607134016/http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/DT/D.T.192112220002.html |date=7 June 2011 }}</ref> During the subsequent [[Irish Civil War|Civil War]] MacEntee commanded the IRA unit in Marlboro Street Post Office in Dublin. He later fought with [[Cathal Brugha]] in the Hamman Hotel and was subsequently interned in [[Kilmainham]] and [[Gormanston Camp|Gormanstown]] until December 1923.