How an Ecuardorian bomber landed in Dunmore in 1962

A Nationwide report onow an Ecuardorian bomber landed in Dunmore

How one small Irish town became a crucial battleground in the Civil War

Could Michael Collins have avoided Civil War?

After the signing of the Treaty, Michael Collins's approach was a combination of tactical flexibility and strategic certainty. He played a delicate game as he tried to keep every avenue open and avoid burning bridges as the new State negotiated with the British and the new Northern Irish prime minister James Craig. But an assassination in London changed the delicate balance, as Gabriel Doherty explains

A two minute guide to everyday violence in the Civil War

Wall of Silence? Memory and the Civil War

Cold Case Collins: photographic evidence?

The panel discusses the photographs taken in the days following the shooting

Cold Case Collins: the story of Michael Collins's cap

Dr Audrey Whitty of the National Museum of Ireland tells how Michael Collins's cap ended up in the museum's collection

Cold Case Collins: Memory and history

How reliable are people's memories of significant events? The panel discuss the issue

Cold Case Collins: A Garda investigation?

Was there a Garda investigation into the death of Michael Collins? In the 1970s, one retired garda claimed there was. Now Detective Sergeant David O'Leary separates fact from rumour

The Occupation of the Four Courts

Historian John Dorney explains what happened when anti-Treaty forces occupied the Four Courts in summer 1922 - and when the National Army decided to remove them by force

A letter from the Great Irish Famine

n this video, historian Ciarán Reilly shares a letter from the Lucas Clements collection at NUI Maynooth, in which a desperate man called Philip Lynch begs for help for his family.

What happened to children during the Famine

Children were perhaps the group that suffered most during the Famine. In this video, historian Gerard Moran explains what happened to them.

How did Victorian artists depict the Famine?

The Famine took place several years after the invention of photography - and yet no photographs of the devastation have survived. In this short video, historian Emily Mark-Fizgerald explains how contemporary visual artists depicted the Famine - and how subjective those images were.

Effects of the Famine

In the 1840s, all of Europe was struck by the potato blight and famine was widespread. But no other european country was affected as catastrophically as Ireland. In this short video Helene O'Keeffe explains why this happened, and the deadly effects.

How the Famine changed Ireland forever

In this video, Historian John Crowley explains the impact on the Famine on both Irish emigration to the United States and the direction of the Catholic church at home.

How Famine workhouses tore families apart

Gerard Moran explains the devastating impact of workhouses on Irish family life

Forgotten Widows

Commemorating the Famine

How has Ireland - and the world - commemorated the horrors of the Famine? Emily Mark-Fitzgerald explains how approaches have varied over the years and across the globe.

How endemic poverty devastated Famine Ireland

In this video, Ciarán Reilly explains how the practice of subdividing small farms into even smaller plots contributed to the devastation of rural Ireland during the Famine.