Eddie McAteer, was an Irish nationalist politician in which part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region?
Eddie McAteer Eddie McAteer (1914 – 28 March 1986) was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland.
Free Stater (Ireland) Free Stater or pro-Treatyite is a term often used by opponents to describe those in Ireland who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that led to the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922. The pro-Treaty side included members of the old IRA who had fought the British during the recent Irish War of Independence. Led by Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy, it soon became the nucleus of the new (regular) Irish National Army that overcame their anti-Treaty IRA opponents during the often bitter Irish Civil War of 1922–23.