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Peace by ordeal: how the Treaty was signed

The negotiations were fraught, the result was divisive. Diarmaid Ferriter tells the story of a historic Anglo-Irish compromise that set the scene for a fatal division of the Irish republican ...

Certificate of the (Anglo-Irish) Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland, signed 6th December 1921, to be submitted to Dáil Éireann for ratification by Arthur Griffith. Image courtesy of National Library of Ireland

How the Treaty debate changed Irish politics forever

Castlebernard, County Cork, burned during the War of Independence

The Big House and the War of Independence

Big House Burning

Anglo-Irish Treaty signatories Arthur Griffith, Eamon J Duggan, Robert Barton and George Gavan-Duffy surrounded by supporters at Holyhead on December 6th 1921. Photo: Matt Loughrey/My Colorful Past from RTE Photographic Archive's Cashman Collection

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty was viewed internationally

Century Ireland Issue 219

Edition 219 Century Ireland

Black History month

Black History Lessons

The Famine Monologues

The Famine Monologues: explore the podcast drama series

Everything you need to know about Black History Month

What is Black History Month? A new RTÉ series delves in

Kindred Spirits. Photo: John Crowley

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

Gunplot

Gunplot: the story of an Irish scandal

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

Colourised photograph of British soldiers

The War of Independence Project on RTE History

Two minute guides to...

The RIC

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

Playlist

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

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

December 8th shoppers on Dublin's Henry Street in 1967. Photo: Des Gaffney/RTÉ Stills Department

How December 8th marked the start of Christmas in Ireland

A bungalow in Kilcoole, Co Wicklow, in April 1987 which was one of the locations used in TV show Glenroe. Photo: Mary Lee/ RTÉ Stills Department

How the bungalow took over the Irish landscape

Anglo-Irish Treaty signatories Arthur Griffith, Eamon J Duggan, Robert Barton and George Gavan-Duffy surrounded by supporters at Holyhead on December 6th 1921. Photo: Matt Loughrey/My Colorful Past from RTE Photographic Archive's Cashman Collection

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty was viewed internationally

Ciaran Hinds as Arctic explorer John Franklin in The Terror. Photo: Aidan Monaghan/AMC

Psychics, clairvoyants and supernatural horrors in the Arctic

"Humans are irrational and emotional, making us hard to predict"

Just why is it so hard to predict the future?

A poster of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Photo: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Ken Saro-Wiwa's death row letters to an Irish missionary nun

Marie Curie in her laboratory in 1905. Photo: Getty Images

All you need to know about Marie Curie

Sunset on the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia. Archaeological sites show humans lived at such high altitudes in resource-poor glaciated landscapes by hunting giant-mole rats. Photo: Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

What can our ancestors teach us about surviving climate change?

Bully's Acre in Dublin, a popular hunting ground for medical students seeking bodies for dissection. Photo: Shane McCorristine

The dark, grisly history of body-snatching in Ireland

"After a day spent blasting rocks and sifting through pottery and bones, Barrett and Plunkett visited a lonely old cottage which they had been informed was haunted". Photo: Wikicommons

The 19th century ghost-hunter and the Co Fermanagh poltergeist

"Women still face many challenges, but if we gave our inner cailleach a louder voice, we could overcome these challenges and put our healing powers to good use." Photo: Sierra Koder/ Unsplash

Why witches are for life and not just Halloween

"A woman who identifies herself as 'Noleen's Mammy' addresses Kirkpatrick as 'Dr Understanding Heart' and signs her missives with a trio of kisses."

Stories from the sex lives of 20th century Irish men and women