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| ‘David Lloyd George blessing James Craig’, by Shemus |
Kenneth O Morgan in the No 10 guest historian series, 'Prime Ministers and No. 10',
wrote:
"He held a series of talks with the Sinn Fein leader, Eamon De Valera, at Downing Street in July 1921, at which key issues in Ireland’s proposed new relationship with the UK, were discussed. Lloyd George, who made a point of speaking in Welsh to his Secretary, Thomas Jones, in the presence of De Valera, successfully argued that neither in Welsh nor in Irish did a word exist for ‘republic’."
