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How MacSwiney's hunger strike drew international attention

Terence MacSwiney's death was a crucial event in the War of Independence and made headlines all over the world. In this video, featuring footage from the funeral procession, Dr Helene ...

Protesters outside Mountjoy Jail in 1920. Image courtesy of RTE Photographic Archive

Dead their conquerers:the significance of the 1920 hunger strikes

Terence MacSwiney. Image from the RTE Photographic Archive, colourised by Matt Loughrey

War of Independence in colour: Terence MacSwiney

Mary MacSwiney. Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Mary MacSwiney: trailblazer who became a "threat to stability"

Alice Ball from Black Women in History by Charlot Kristensen

Black Women in History

From Croke Park 21 Novembre 1920: Dimanche Sanglant à Dublin by Sylvain Gâche and Richard Guérineau. Copyright: 2020 Groupe Delcourt, Éditions Delcourt

How a French graphic novel tells the story of Bloody Sunday 1920

Terence MacSwiney

Death of a Lord Mayor

Terence MacSwiney

How MacSwiney's hunger strike posed religious and legal questions

A colourised pic of Terence MacSwiney and comrades

Watch the Terence Mac Swiney documentary 74 Days

Sean Treacy

Seán Treacy: a life - and death - in images

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

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

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

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Gallipoli: An Irish Story

The 1916 Rising

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All aboard: passengers on a mail car near Black's Royal Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway circa 1880. From Old Ireland In Colour (Merrion Press)

Why we turned Ireland's black and white past into colour

From Croke Park 21 Novembre 1920: Dimanche Sanglant à Dublin by Sylvain Gâche and Richard Guérineau. Copyright: 2020 Groupe Delcourt, Éditions Delcourt

How a French graphic novel tells the story of Bloody Sunday 1920

"The Book is a library of literature that makes a self-assured statement about aristocratic literary taste in autonomous Gaelic Ireland in the late 15th century." Photo: Clare Keogh

Why the Book of Lismore is so important

Epic and often violent hurling tussles of the pre-famine era have been lost to popular memory

Violence, protest and melees: hurling in pre-famine Ireland

Carrig mheannáin (kids rock) tells us nothing of about how awesome local children may be, but it does say something about goat husbandry. Photo: Getty Images

The secrets hidden in Irish townland names

Joe Biden meets the people in Ballina, Co Mayo in June 2016

How Joe Biden's Irish ancestor saved thousands during the Famine

There is a sense that Halloween was a time when Oweynagat could open the gates of hell or become an entrance to a magical world." Photo: Gary Dempsey

'Ireland's gate to hell': a Co Roscommon cave and the Otherworld

Terence MacSwiney: "his physical weakness came to represent strength and moral conviction against corporeal colonialism"

Death of a lord mayor: Terence MacSwiney's 1920 hunger strike

The plaque commemorating flash of inspiration at Broom Bridge in Cabra. Photo: William Murphy https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/

The most famous graffiti in the history of maths

"The Minister for Finance has the weight of the past, and not just expectations of the future, on his shoulders"

A history of Irish budgets

"Casting directors across the world must have held their breath in shock at the thoughts of re-casting all their TV Vikings with black hair."

Did Ireland's first Vikings really have black hair?

Charles Haughey's 1982 government lost power after just 8 months in office

A short history of Ireland's GUBU government