How two republicans gunned down a hero of the first World War on his own doorstep

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

Memorial to the 2,000 men killed in one day was the first to be erected on the Western Front

The funerals of British intelligence officers had an appalling symmetry with the London procession to mark the return to Ireland of the body of Terence MacSwiney

How the IRA helped cause the British to sue for peace in the War of Independence

An Irishman’s Diary

An Irishman’s Diary: Ireland’s biggest county had become the British army’s biggest security headache

Newly released files detail role of Birmingham gangs in the War of Independence

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were forged out of the bitterness of an ancient quarrel

Netflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpy

Two parties rose out of Anglo-Irish Treaty but today their ideology overlaps considerably

Martin Doyle was a Victoria Cross winner who quit to join the national struggle

The governor, Sir Michael O’Dwyer from Tipperary, approved of the mass killing 100 years ago

Pension file letter sheds new light on the killing of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson