Original: When de Valera resigned as President of the Republic on 6 January 1922, O'Kelly returned from Paris to Ireland to try to negotiate a compromise, whereby de Valera could return to the presidency.
Simplified: When de Valera resigned as President of the Irish Republic on 6 January, 1922, Ó Ceallaigh returned from Paristo try to persuade de Valera to return to the presidency.