‘Live life to the full,’ says Ireland’s oldest woman on her 109th birthday
Máirín Hughes remembers the Spanish Flu in 1918 and Black and Tans patrolling in Dublin during War of Indpendence
Century: 1921 Truce and Treaty
Free State use of prisoners to clear roadblocks in Cork set precedent for Kerry ‘horror’ - historian
Dr Andy Bielenberg of UCC says practice of using prisoners to clear mined roadblocks 100 years ago began in Newcestown, West Cork
Mammoth production featuring 45 actors to bring Anglo-Irish Treaty to life
RTÉ to stage six-hour reconstruction of the debates held in the lead-up to the Civil War a century ago
Hales family of Cork an inspiration in overcoming division of Civil War, Minister tells commemoration
The manner in which the Hales family united after the shooting dead of Pro-Treaty TD, Sean Hales by the IRA shows a path to reconcililation, says Coveney
Defence Forces should have honoured dead Free State soldiers, Ring says
The commemoration was organised by a group of retired army officers and was attended by relatives of the dead soldiers
Fine Gael leader says Free State executions were unconstitutional
The executions were ordered two days after the government came into being in retaliation for the murder of TD Sean Hales
Execution of anti-Treaty IRA leaders by Free State was illegal, says leading judge
Justice Gerard Hogan says there was no basis in law for killings of Rory O’Connor, Liam Mellows, Joe McKelvey and Dick Barrett
Éamon Phoenix remembered as an ‘inspirational peacemaker’ at funeral in Belfast
Historian and broadcaster gave everyone in North a ‘greater understanding of shared past’, mourners told
Best fiction of the Irish War of Independence
Irish novels set in revolutionary times took an oblique view of big historical events
Northern Ireland at a crossroads as partition centenary underlines division
Debates about commemorating the past are also about the future
Q&A: What happened in 1921 in Ireland?
All the years in the Decade of Centenaries are significant but 1921 is the most critical of all
Plotting partition: The other Border options that might have changed Irish history
Three plans were considered for the Irish Border before the six counties model was adopted
‘She never blinked an eye’ – An Irishman’s Diary on the IRA’s killing of Mary Lindsay in 1921
Lindsay was killed along with her chauffeur James Clarke
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