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Border Lives: Miriam O'Callaghan on a century of personal stories

As part of RTÉ's ongoing Decade of Centenaries coverage, Miriam O'Callaghan has authored a new documentary on the lives of some of those caught up in an extraordinary century since ...

Gunplot

Gunplot: the story of an Irish scandal

Michael Portillo and Michael Laffan in Kings Hall Belfast

Partition, 1921: the story behind the new documentary

relief fund

The Distress Papers: a charitable list

Custom House

New section: find out more about the Custom House Fire

Percy Metcalfe's final designs for the Irish coinage, 1927. Photo: RTÉ Stills Library

How barnyard animals ended up on Irish Free State coins

The scene on Dublin's North Strand the morning after the Geman bombing of the area in May 1941. Photo: Independent News And Media/Getty Images

How the 1941 North Strand bombings wiped out an entire family

John Bull hands food to a listless Irish family (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"Their own wickedness": how the British press reported the Famine

Dublin city centre during the Famine

Dublin City during the Great Famine: explore the map

After the Famine: explore the new section

Hibernia, as depicted in the 17th century.

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

GunPlot: Ep 1 - The Spark that Lit the Flame

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

Two minute guides to...

The RIC

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

The RIC

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

The Dáil Ban

John Borgonovo on how the ban backfired on the British

The First Dáil

Helene O'Keeffe on the first TDs

Cumann na mBan

Helene O'Keeffe on the crucial role women played in the War of Independence

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

Interior of a cabin in Carraroe, Co. Galway. Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

How photography told the story of Ireland's 1898 food shortage

Sections of Atlantic cables and grapnel laid in the 1860s. Photo: Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL/Getty Images

The cable connecting Ireland to the Americas

In the dock: Nazi war criminals Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joacchim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfed Rosenburg and Hans Frank at the Nuremberg trials in 1945. Photo: Getty Images

Remembering the Nazi war crime trials at Nuremberg 75 years on

All eyes on Dublin Bay South. Photo: House of the Oireachtas (Open Data) PSI Licence

A short history of colourful Irish by-elections

The German weight lifting championships in Villingen in 1929. Photo: Ullstein bild via Getty Images

Barbells, dumbbells and kettlebells: a history of weightlifting

A 1860 sketch of convicts in Bermuda. Image courtesy of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

The story of Irish convicts sent 3,000 miles from home to Bermuda

Percy Metcalfe's final designs for the Irish coinage, 1927. Photo: RTÉ Stills Library

How barnyard animals ended up on Irish Free State coins

Armed anti-Treaty members of the IRA on Dublin's Grafton Street in 1922. Photo: Walshe/ Getty Images

Does a nation's history dictate its relationship with guns?

The scene on Dublin's North Strand the morning after the Geman bombing of the area in May 1941. Photo: Independent News And Media/Getty Images

How the 1941 North Strand bombings wiped out an entire family

Some of the houses built by Rev David Hall and the St Barnabas Public Utility Society in Dublin's East Wall. Photo: Ruth McManus

A lesson from the 1920s on how to solve an Irish housing crisis

Dubliners watch on from across the Liffey as the Custom House burns after the IRA attack in May 1921. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

All you need to know about the 1921 burning of the Custom House

Two of the first stamps issued by the Irish Free State

What Ireland's first stamps told the world about the new state