Gresham Hotel
Hotel in Dublin, IrelandWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
Michael FoleyHOST
but the real controversy starts to unfold that evening.
Michael FoleyHOST
So both teams go to the Gresham Hotel, where there is a banquet for them.
Michael FoleyHOST
We're more used now to, you know, one team goes to their hotel.
Michael FoleyHOST
This really is not a good idea.
Tim McGarryHOST
So that's coming, isn't it?
Melanie HarrisonGUEST
That is coming and of course it finishes, the play finishes in the Gresham Hotel in Dublin so we finish in one of the rooms and the snow is falling over Dublin.
Melanie HarrisonGUEST
Are you
Tim McGarryHOST
going to recreate snow?
Michael ReynoldsGUEST
Yeah, so when the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in 1921, it was kind of determined by the Irish delegates, such as Michael Collins, and even the British delegates, such as Winston Churchill, that the Royal Irish Constabulary was a controversial police force, and they would have to be disbanded.
Michael ReynoldsGUEST
So as part of that then, at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin on O'Connell Street, Michael Collins himself chaired a special committee along with men such as Richard Mulcahy, Ono Duffy, Michael Staines, Ned Boyd, D.I. Walsh, D.I. Carney and that to set up a committee to determine, set up a new police force in Ireland.
Michael ReynoldsGUEST
And that is where the Civil Guard came into play.
Michael ReynoldsGUEST
So after that was formed, Collins sent out a special dispatch to all of his IRA commanders across the country, requesting that they send their best men to Dublin for a special assignment.