Weatherday: The hand of forbearance and conciliation

Nature's green form in JFK Park and Arboretum, in Co Wexford.

Dry this morning with sunny spells. Cloud moving in from the northwest in late morning and afternoon, with rain from early evening.

It will be warm and humid with highest temperature of 18-23deg, in moderate westerly winds.

On this day in 1921, the British Cabinet proposed talks with de Valera's Sinn Fein, following the King's Speech of George V to the parliament of Northern Ireland two days earlier, calling for 'a new era of peace, contentment, and good will'.

(A Timeline of the War of Independence in County Kildare.)

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