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War of Independence in colour: site of Barry's capture

Matt Loughrey's My Colorful Past project bridges "the gap between history and art", using digital techniques to add colour to monochrome images. Compare both versions with our interactive presentation

A War on Women? Sexual violence during the Irish revolution

William O'Brien circa 1930. Image: RTE Archives

William O'Brien: labour activist who dreamed of socialist Ireland

Rediscovering the glamour of Dublin's lost department stores

The glamorous history of Dublin's lost department stores

Peadar Clancy. Image courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW 17PO-1A22-20

Peadar Clancy: the charismatic "superman" who played a key role

Documentary on One: The Hospital the Irish Shipped to France

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Constance Markievicz

The Decade of Centenaries presents the Pop-up Women's Museum

Colourised photo by John Breslin. Original image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Explore the War of Independence in colour

De Valera with supporters in San Francisco

De Valera in America: David McCullagh tells the story

De Valera in America

Australian support for the British empire

The Australian supporters of Irish self-determination

Captain Eileen McGrane

"Most Effective Women": The story of Eileen McGrane

Auxilaries outside Amiens Street, now Connolly Station, 1920

National Library of Ireland: From Turmoil to Truce

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family in the 1910s. (Image by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

How Russian crown jewels went from the Romanovs to Harry Boland

De Valera in America

The Irish Revolution: watch the documentary series

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

War of Independence in Colour

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The site of Kevin Barry's arrest. Original image: National Library of Ireland, colourised by Matt Loughrey

War of Independence in colour: site of Barry's capture

Soldiers guard tobacco kegs, May 1921

War of Independence in colour: soldiers guard tobacco

Peadar Clancy. Image courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/)PW 17PO-1A22-20

War of Independence in colour: Peadar Clancy

Cash's department store in ruins

War of Independence in colour: the ruins of Cork City

Crowds gather to pray

War of Independence in colour: prayers at Downing St

Flames emerge from the Custom House in 1921 in this image colourised by John Breslin

War of Independence in colour: the Custom House burns

RIC men on Patrick Street, Cork, in 1921. Image colourised by John Breslin

War of Independence in colour: armed RIC men in Cork

Women protesting outside Mountjoy in 1920. Image colourised by John Breslin

War of Independence in colour: women's Mountjoy protest

Unidentified young woman wearing what looks like a Cumann na mBan pin

War of Independence in colour: who is the mystery woman

British soldiers inspect a train in Kerry during the war of Independence. Original image from the National Library of Ireland, colourised by John Breslin

War of Independence in Colour: Soldiers search a train

Auxiliaries in Dublin City Centre during the War of Independence. Image colourised by John Breslin

War of Independence in colour: Auxiliaries on the move

War of Independence in colour: Armoured car with daring graffiti

War of Independence in colour: Armoured car graffiti

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 Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht and The Atlas of the Irish Revolution

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The 1916 Rising

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ISDL demonstrators gather at Liverpool's Pier Head in August 1920 for the arrival of Archbishop Daniel Mannix. Photo: Firmin/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

What were Irish nationalists up to in UK during the war years?

A selection of Frank Murray's wartime diary entries

The Belfast doctor who used Gaeilge to outwit Japanese captors

If those walls could talk...

A short history of unparliamentary behaviour in Dáil Eireann

Ahmad Tawfiq Al-Madani in 1950. Photo: Photo12/UIG/Getty Images

How the War of Independence inspired an Algerian nationalist

Meeting the British by Paul Muldoon with artwork by Mary Farl Powers. Photo: Great Book Of Ireland/UCC

How did they make Ireland's modern day Book of Kells?

Marty Cooper: "We knew that this was going to be a big deal, but we weren't certain it was going to happen in our lifetime"

The man who invented the mobile phone

A cross-inscribed ogham stone in Dromkeare, Co.Kerry. Photo: CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images

The 360 stones which show off the earliest writing in Ireland

Charles Browne measures Tom Connelly on Inis Mór in 1892 while Alfred Haddon notes the data. Photo: courtesy of the Board of Trinity College Dublin

The head-hunter who measured Irishmen's skulls

La mort de Cèsar (The Death of Julius Caesar) by Vincenzo Camuccini (1806). Photo: Wikipedia/Creative Commons

Did climate change in Alaska help end the ancient Roman republic?

John Hume addresses a meeting in Derry following violence at the Apprentice Boy Parade, August 1969. Photo: Mirrorpix via Getty Images

John Hume: the Derry boy who went global

Tuam Mother and Baby Home survivor Teresa O'Sullivan as a baby

What the Tuam Oral History Project tells us about Ireland's past

'He was somebody who MI5 suggested was quite deranged, but could be very effective in terms of how he could ignite an audience, which is very much a part of the fascist campaigning at that time'

How William Joyce became Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw