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History resources for secondary teachers and students

Based on the Atlas of the Irish Revolution from UCC, these downloadable workbooks, lesson plans, overviews and document packs make historical research accessible to secondary school students from Junior Cycle ...

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

An Irish labourer in the 1850s

19th century in colour: an Irish labourer in the 1850s

"Frank Broome played for Shels from February to April 1955 and earned £5 per week, though a newspaper reported that it cost an additional £10 a week to fly him from Birmingham to Dublin and back home again". Photo: Aston Villa FC

The story of the Shelbourne player and Hitler's Nazis

A cartoon shows Lloyd George tangled up by the Irish Question

Road to partition: the plan to divide Ireland

An old customs building at a border crossing in Co Donegal

Road to Partition: how the border was drawn up

A cartoon showing Lloyd George bringing the partition bill to Carson

Politics of partition: how different parties saw the new border

Edward Carson

Road to partition: the unionist perspective

Cork from above

Terror in Cork: the burning of a city

Burning of Cork

Black and tans in Dublin

Who were the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries?

Ballykinlar Players theatre programme, August 1921. Image courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland

Guns, books and life masks: material culture of the War

Daniel Macdonald's painting The Eviction, 1850. Collection Crawford Art Gallery Cork

How the Great Famine changed Ireland forever

Sir Charles Edward F. Trevelyan, K.C.B. Engraved by D.J. Pound from a photograph by John Watkins, Parliament Street. Image: Getty Images

The truth about Trevelyan

Charles Trevelyan

Constance Markievicz

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

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

Canon Sheehan's 1901 novel Luke Delmege contains a rare contemporary fictional depiction of a Magdalene laundry.

Canon Sheehan, the Magdalene Laundries and Irish incarceration

US vice president Charles Curtis opening the 1932 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles. Photo: Universal History Archive/ Univers via Getty Images

The story of America's first multi-racial vice-president

Edward Jenner: even though the term didn't exist then, he was still describing the zoonotic origins of smallpox, and associating those origins with his contemporary, consumer economy.

What can Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine tell us about Covid?

"Frank Broome played for Shels from February to April 1955 and earned £5 per week, though a newspaper reported that it cost an additional £10 a week to fly him from Birmingham to Dublin and back home again". Photo: Aston Villa FC

The story of the Shelbourne player and Hitler's Nazis

"Undoubtedly, Mrs Doyle from Father Ted spoke for vast swathes of Irish people when, disgusted by the TeaMaster salesman who assured her that his contraption took the misery out of making tea, she retorted, 'Maybe I like the misery.'"

What's behind the Irish obsession with death and misery?

Apollo points the way: "while not afraid of warfare, Apollo was a purifier, able to cleanse those stained with even the blood of their relatives". Photo: Getty Images

What can leaders learn in uncertain times from Greek gods?

Gallery visitors examine a Hilary Heron sculpture at the Living Art Exhibition at the National College of Art, Dublin in 1963. Photo: RTÉ Stills Library

The fascinating life and work of Irish artist Hilary Heron

Anti-internment protesters outside the House of Commons in London in 1971. Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/ CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

How an Armagh court ruled internment was unlawful in 1972

"The custom was that women made social calls to the homes of their friends and neighbours and enjoyed tea and the last of the Christmas cake". Photo: George Marks/Getty Images

The roots and traditions of Nollaig na mBan

"If lucky, those in the Cairn may witness the sunlight snaking its way through the lightbox up the ancient path to penetrate the centre of this stunning architectural monument to a magnificent feat of nature."

How to mark the Winter Solstice's shortest day and longest night

Winter Solstice

Protesters outside Mountjoy Jail in 1920. Photo: RTÉ Archive

How 1920 was one of the bloodiest years in Irish history

The aftermath of the Provisional IRA ambush at Warrenpoint in 1979 which killed 18 British soldiers

A short history of the many groups who've claimed to be the IRA