History: RTÉ

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 to Leaving Cert

The Great Irish Famine

Famine Ireland

After the Famine

The Lockout

Ireland and The Great War

From the RTÉ Archives: Irish memories of WW1

Gallipoli

The 1916 Rising

Overview

The 1918 General Election

The First Dáil

Soloheadbeg

De Valera in America

The Dáil Ban

Suppression of Cumann na mBan

Hunger Strikes

The Munitions Strike

The death of Terence MacSwiney

Bloody Sunday

Martial Law

The Burning of Cork

The Border

The burning of the Custom House

Northern Ireland's parliament opens

The Truce

The Treaty

Transfer of Power

IRA Convention

The Pact Election

RTÉ History - History: RTÉ

Attacking the Block: the Battle of Dublin

Under Siege: the Battle of the Four Courts

Dublin's theatre of war, then and now

Soldiers of the Republic: Cumann na mBan and the Civil War

Cumann na mBan and the War of Independence

Why the Four Courts?

The 1922 'Pact' Election

Press, Propaganda and the Treaty split

Censorship and propaganda: Media in the War of Independence

Taking Sides? How voters responded to the "pact election"

Class warfare: was there a social basis to the Civil War divide?

Why was Co Kerry so violent during the Civil War?

Revolutionary Routes: Ireland and the Black Atlantic

5 things you didn't know about Fionn Mac Cumhaill

In The Picture: In Our Own Image - Ireland, photographed

The Famine Monologues: explore the podcast drama series

RTÉ History in the Junior and Senior Cycle history classroom

History on video

The Famine in art

Playlist

The Famine in art

De Valera in America

The RIC

The Dáil Ban

The First Dáil

Cumann na mBan

History in pictures: themed image galleries and exhibitions

The War of Independence in colour series

Black Women in History

War of Independence lives: meet the people who changed history

The History Show on RTE Radio 1

Watch and listen

The Famine explained: origins and effects

The Famine Monologues: explore the podcast drama series

Treaty Live

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

The Hunger: watch the documentary here

The Irish Revolution: watch the documentary series

GunPlot: All the episodes

History resources for secondary teachers and students

From the RTÉ Archives

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

Standing For An Irish Parliament

Maire Comerford remembers the first meeting of the Dáil

Dan Breen on the Soloheadbeg ambush