Century

Gaining membership required complicated diplomacy, illustrating challenges for new state on world stage

The anti-Treaty IRA was losing military momentum when its chief of staff was killed in April 1923

In spite of adversity, Ireland became one of the few newly independent states to survive as an uninterrupted democracy

A review of the evidence finds a Free State intelligence officer as the most likely culprit

The period that followed the 1920s would see Mother and Baby Homes, abuse of Magdalene women and attempts to control women’s reproductive capacity

Final year of Decade of Centenaries programme recalls first step in Ireland taking its place on world stage

Many areas addressed by contributors in this resource link directly to the Leaving Cert syllabus

Many of these articles can serve as a pathway for deeper research on issues that pique pupils’ interest

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attend ceremony outside the GPO

Volume cleverly employs a range of sources to capture both the physical carnage and those at the centre of it as both perpetrators and victims

Mary-Lou McDonald tells crowd of several hundred at Liam Mellows’ grave in Wexford that republicans are ready to bring about a 32-county socialist republic

Democracy’s endurance suggests we got more right than wrong, but there are long shadows

Narrative of political responsibility and need to face down anti-treaty republicans endures. However, most of the 81 anti-treaty soldiers executed were of low rank

In just six months 81 men were executed, 100 years ago

Killester Garden Village was the largest development built in Ireland by the British government for ex-servicemen

The Public Safety Bill resulted in the execution of 81 anti-Treaty prisoners during the Civil War

In the News podcast: Ronan McGreevy talks about the man and his legacy

Diaries he kept from 1918 to 1922 will now be accessible to the public through the National Archives of Ireland

New documentary suggests couple’s hasty marriage may have been to ward off scandal

Minister says troops of 1922 would be proud of role Defence Forces play in peacekeeping

Ceremony at Béal na Bláth will mark 100th anniversary of revolutionary leader

Tranche of documents saved from Four Courts related to Dublin port to be restored

Irish art during the period both mirrored and shaped events in the political sphere

Part of the challenge of this year’s centenary is to confront the silences around 1922

Teaching the Civul War in the history classroom

Shooting dead of 13 men in 1922 led to mass exodus of Protestants from that part of Cork

State will not communicate preferred narrative or make judgments in Civil War events

Clear by second week of July 1922 that Civil War could not be confined to Dublin

Ó ionsaí ar na Ceithre Cúirteanna go bás Mhichíl Uí Choileáin i luíochán ag Béal na Bláth. Sracfhéachaint ar mhóreachtraí 1922

Government opted for official reprisal for the murder of Sean Hales TD

How the independent state in 1922 went from democratic general election to disaster

A Sinn Féin split over the Treaty left Ireland in uncertain circumstances in early 1922

Censorship, conservative morality and high cost of living made for an oppressive mix

Figures previously put forward of 4,000-5,000 dead now no longer thought to be accurate

While men of violence were denounced, church and State deplored emancipation of women

Study principles revolve around evaluating multiple sources of historical evidence

Notable exceptions were made to widespread desire to forget conflict

Cé go maítear go forleathan go raibh tost mór ann faoi Chogadh na gCarad, is iomaí scríbhneoir Gaeilge a d’fhéach leis an tost a bhriseadh

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland follows a global effort to recover destroyed items

National Army’s use of field guns in battle of Four Courts saved many lives