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The Famine Monologues: explore the podcast drama series

A soup pot in the interior of a 19th century Famine cottage in Co Kerry. Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Where does the phrase 'taking the soup' come from?

Into the Lion's Den

Signing the Irish Treaty 1921: Into the Lion's Den

Decade of Commemorations

Everything you need to know about Black History Month

What is Black History Month? A new RTÉ series delves in

Alice Ball from Black Women in History by Charlot Kristensen

Black Women in History

Asenath Nicholson

Asenath Nicholson, the American who described the Great Famine

Kindred Spirits. Photo: John Crowley

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

Violet Gibson: The most famous Irish woman you've never heard of

Cláracha teilifíse

Gunplot

Gunplot: the story of an Irish scandal

Hibernia, as depicted in the 17th century.

Ireland, Empire, and the Early Modern World: watch the lectures

A montage of images from the RTE History website

History resources for secondary teachers and students

May Gibney in her Cumann ma mBan uniform. Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW 19PO-1A22-27

RTÉ History in the Junior and Senior Cycle history classroom

Image from the Irish Revolution documentary series

Irish history on RTE television

Colourised photograph of British soldiers

The War of Independence Project on RTE History

Two minute guides to...

The RIC

Mary McAulliffe on the changing role of the R.I.C. during the War of Independence

Playlist

The RIC

The Dáil Ban

The First Dáil

Cumann na mBan

May Gibney, courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW

History in pictures: themed image galleries and exhibitions

Colourised image

The War of Independence in colour series

Elizabeth Mernin

War of Independence lives: meet the people who changed history

The History Show on RTE Radio 1

Bringing the past to life with Myles Dungan and guests

From the RTÉ Archives

"Nothing Else Mattered": Sighle Humpreys of Cumann na mBan

What was it like to be involved in Cumann na mBan during its first revolutionary decade? In this 1984 interview, Sighle Humphreys shares her memories.

Earnán de Blaghd, Robert Barton and James Ryan (1969)

Standing For An Irish Parliament

Maire Comerford remembers the first meeting of the Dáil

Dan Breen on the Soloheadbeg ambush

About the War of Independence project

The War of Independence project is a partnership between RTÉ History, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport & Media and The Atlas of the Irish Revolution

RTE History

World War 1

Gallipoli: An Irish Story

The 1916 Rising

Century Ireland

Discover the history of your land

History on Brainstorm

"Cleary was burned to death by her husband and family members, who claimed that they had done so to force fairies to return Cleary, whom the family believed had stolen and replaced with a changeling."

"Darkest Ireland" and the burning of Bridget Cleary

A soup pot in the interior of a 19th century Famine cottage in Co Kerry. Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Where does the phrase 'taking the soup' come from?

"The Minister for Finance has the weight of the past, and not just expectations of the future, on his shoulders"

A history of Irish budgets

Two men working on the harvest in Co Donegal in 1968. Photo: Popperfoto via Getty Images

The long, quiet agricultural revolution in rural Ireland

Kilkenny Castle, which was developed by William Marshal in the 1190s

The partition of Ireland 774 years ago

Medieval Ireland

John Lavery's High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: The Trial of Sir Roger Casement 1916

The story behind the controversial painting of Roger Casement

The most recent commemoration controversy saw President Michael D. Higgins decline an invitation to a 'Service of Reflection and Hope' organised by the main Christian Churches in Ireland 'to mark the centenaries of the partition of Ireland'.

Why commemoration is controversial (even if we feel it shouldn't)

The Irish in Paris: many familiar faces in the crowd gathered for the World Congress of the Irish Race in 1921. Photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France

How a Paris conference in 1922 put Ireland on a world stage

'The reasons for the popularity and widespread use of mobile communications were largely driven by economics'. Photo: Eirik Solheim/Unsplash

The many twists and turns in the history of the mobile phone

A billboard poster for Des O'Malley's Progressive Democrats during the 1992 General Election. Photo: Rolling News

A short history of small Irish political parties with big impacts

Wokers Cannon Street railway station in London in 1958. Photo: Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images

Why do some emigrants rarely feature in Ireland's diaspora story?

Sign of the times: 'existing boundaries are the result of processes in the past that may restrict thinking about alternative political, social, and economic possibilities.' Photo: Wikipedia Creative Commons

How Ireland's county boundaries define us