The Anglo-Irish Treaty may have formalized partition, but there were several factions in Ireland that didn’t want to recognize Northern Ireland as its own state and would do anything they could to undermine its independence. Meanwhile, James Craig and the Unionists did all they could to ensure that Northern Ireland would be “safely” in the hands of a majority Protestant and Unionist government that would never unite or govern jointly with a Dublin Parliament.
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References
The Republic by Charles Townshend
Sectarianism and Irish Republican Violence on the South-East Ulster Frontier, 1919–1922 by Matthew Lewis
Donegal and the Joint I.R.A. Northern Offensive, May-November 1922 by Robert Lynch
Between Two Hells by Diarmaid Ferriter
Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition on Ireland by Cormac Moore
