Women proved easy targets for the Black and Tans and were regularly terrorised in their homes by threatening, abusive and drunk soldiers

National Library exhibition makes space for civilian experience of intense conflict

From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms

Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut

Collection held by Ernie O’Malley to be sold, as de Vere’s also hold major Irish art sale

Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Sales in London and Dublin include 11 paintings, some bought directly from Yeats

The Revolution Files: O’Duffy went on to become IRA Chief of Staff, Garda commissioner and founder of the Blueshirts

The taoiseach wanted to bring Ireland into the Commonwealth with the queen as its head

‘Oh Maureen, my darling, I love you so much! Your face is in my dreams,’ wrote John Ford

Brigade activity reports (BAR) list every action carried out during the Irish Revolution

Frank McNally – An Irishman’s Diary

Police records reveal a McGreevy family connection to the ‘Big Fellow’ in 1917

Book publisher who founded Anvil Press and The Children’s Press

On the second day of the Easter Rising, soldiers poured into Dublin, and martial law was declared

National Archives ensures this country will have a history that calls the State to account

Famous author and his wife took thousands of pictures of rural Mayo in 1930s and 1940s

The job’s yours with knowledge, passion and an ability to make people laugh and cry

Event will give global context to 1916 as part of university’s centenary commemorations

Review: the military male perspective of the Rising is well-documented but there is another story

Simon Campbell - Born: August 28th, 1914; Died: August 27th, 2013

HISTORY: Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957 Edited by Cormac KH O’Malley and Nicholas Allen The…

MEMOIR: Raids and Rallies, By Ernie O’Malley, Mercier Press, 282pp. €14.99

BACK PAGES: Ernie O’Malley was one of the most successful IRA commanders during the War of Independence and a dedicated opponent…

History: 'No Surrender Here!' - The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley, 1922-1924 Edited by Cormac KH O'Malley and Anne Dolan…

Eighty years ago, the paths of two men - one who made films, the other who made history - crossed on a turbulent boat journey…

Ernie O'Malley was a daring guerilla leader and - as the title of this fine biography asserts - an intellectual

Ernie O'Malley was born in 1887, the second of 11 children

WHEN I was teaching in Clontarf in the late 1950s I had and O Malley boy in class