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The Table - how we made a play for kids about 1916 and after

Ahead of shows in Galway and Dublin, playwright Christian O'Reilly introduces The Table, his new play for young people, which explores the impact of the Civil War through the resonant story of how a family can be divided.

Christian O'Reilly • 16 Feb 23

Who were the Men of the South? An Irish masterpiece revisited

RTÉ Arena • 25 Aug 22

David McCullagh on the Michael Collins diaries

Books • 22 Aug 22

Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864 - 1922) attending Lord Pembroke's shooting party at Wilton, Salisbury (Photo: Getty)

David McCullagh on the killing of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson

Books • 28 May 22

Martina Devlin, author of Edith: A Novel

Edith: A Novel by Martina Devlin - read an extract

Books • 27 May 22

Sunday Miscellany: The Lost Dispatch, by Lourdes Mackey

Nancy Wyse Power's adventures on the Dublin-Cork train in Easter Week, 1916

Sunday Miscellany • 12 Apr 22

We Go into Action Today at Noon by Eamonn Duggan: read an extract

Books • 19 Nov 21

Major Compton-Smith and wife Gladys Mary Lloyd, 1916

Documentary On One: I Am To Be Shot

20 year old Saoirse Sheehan introduces this weekend's Documentary On One which is based on her secondary school project.

Documentary On One • 30 Aug 21

Sunday Miscellany: Clodagh O'Donoghue on April 1st, 1921

Sunday Miscellany • 31 Mar 21

Ireland's Final Rebellion and An American Dream - author Michael Gerard

An American Dream - Michael Gerard's century-spanning epic

Author Michael Gerard writes for Culture about his book Ireland's Final Rebellion and An American Dream, an epic tale spanning the 20th century, inspired by his own family's remarkable tale...

Books • 10 Mar 21

Anti-Treaty Sentiment is written by Wendy Erskine and read for us by the author

Spoken Stories Independence - a new story from Wendy Erskine

Enjoy another brand-new story from the Spoken Stories Independence fiction collection...

Spoken Stories • 10 Feb 21

Author Peter Cunningham: a web of intrigue, love, loss and betrayal that keeps you hooked right up to the end

Reviewed: Freedom is a Land I Cannot See

Eileen Dunne was deeply engaged by Peter Cunninham's new novel because of its subtlety, lyricism, and the author's ability to re-create the atmosphere of fear and tension that permeated Dublin in the 1920s.

Book Review • 30 Jun 20

Documentary On One: Shining a light on Ireland's troubled past

This week's Documentary On One tells the dramatic story of the short life and tragic death of 24-year-old Eileen Quinn, who was shot by uniformed men outside her home in 1920. Almost 100 years later, Eileen's grand-niece Orla Higgins tells her story...

Documentary On One • 23 Aug 19

Tess Murray, the subject of this week's Documentary On One, Thomas & Tess

The tale of Thomas & Tess: Documentary On One

Tess Murray never forgot her first love. She was a young teacher, engaged to Thomas McEver, a chemist who had moved to Dunmore Co. Galway as the Irish War of Independence was drawing to a close in the spring of 1921. But fate took a tragic turn one night...

Documentary On One • 30 Jul 19

Michael Collins was the Irish Volunteers' director of intelligence in early 1919, the year the War of Independence began

Review: Ireland's War of Independence by Lorcan Collins

January 21, 1919 saw the first meeting of Dáil Éireann at the Mansion House in Dublin. Two policemen were shot dead by the Irish Republican Army in Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary the same day, marking the commencement of the War of Independence.

Books • 15 Jul 19

War of Independence