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Revisiting the Coffin Ships: emigrant mortality during the Famine

An Margadh Mór – in the local town was considered a big day where rural people sold hens, eggs, geese, turkeys and so on. Photo: RTÉ Stills Department

Do you know these 7 great Irish Christmas traditions?

A street view of Third Avenue, New York in 1915 close to Ellen O'Byrne Dewitt's music shop. Photo: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Meet the Leitrim woman who founded the Irish record industry

A barber surgeon attending to a man's forehead. An oil painting from the Wellcome Collection which appears in Every Branch of the Healing Art: A History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Surgeons vs barbers: how Irish surgeons declared independence

An artist's impression of a female shaman. Image by Karol Schauer.

What grave goods tell us about Pagan Ireland's female ritualists

The post office in Ballingeary. Image courtest of Timothy Twomey.

Family Histories: the postmistress and the revolutionary

Hibernia, as depicted in the 17th century.

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

'Its end ushered in a new era of employment possibilities and pathways for women'. Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How did the marriage bar affect Irish women?

Work and careers

A photo of Jimmy Dolan, displayed by his son James.

Irish history: share your family stories

Cathal Brugha's funeral

Civil War Ireland then and now: explore the interactive series

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 RTÉ television

Frederick Holland Mares or James Simonton,
Young woman at the Gap of Dunloe, c. 1865
The Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection, STP_2856, Courtesy National Library of Ireland

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

The Famine Monologues

The Famine Monologues: explore the podcast drama series

Bitesize History: watch the short videos

More Bitesize History: watch the short videos

How internees rebelled during the Civil War

Anne McInerney explains

Playlist

How internees rebelled during the Civil War

12 Labour - Civil War Conference - Landscape v2 10Feb23

The Occupation of the Four Courts

How did Victorian artists depict the Famine?

De Valera in America

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

Alice Ball from Black Women in History by Charlot Kristensen

Black Women in History

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

Watch and listen

Nan Hogan

Impossible conditions: Nan Hogan's family share her prison letter

Jennifer Nuttall

Jennifer Nuttall tells the story of how her family was threatened

The memorial at Drumboe

"Too young to die": remembering the executed men of Drumboe

Children being evacuated from the streets around O'Connell Street during the Battle of Dublin

A three minute guide to social class and the Civil War divide

National Army soldiers on O'Connell St in summer 1922

A three minute guide to the Battle of Dublin

Gavin Foster, filmed at the Irish Civil War National Conference at UCC in June 2022

Wall of Silence: Memory and the Civil War

The Four Courts in flames

A two minute guide to the Battle of the Four Courts

Battle of Dublin

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

The War of Independence

The Civil War

Explore women's history on RTÉ History

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

Pictures of the Past

An image from the exhibition

The National Library of Ireland presents From Turmoil to Truce

Women protesting outside Mountjoy Jail, Dublin in 1920.

In Pictures: Hunger Strikes and Protests

May Gibney in uniform Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW 19PO-1A22-27

Portraits and Pamphlets: A Cumann na mBan Gallery

Century Ireland

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