Gaining membership required complicated diplomacy, illustrating challenges for new state on world stage

A review of the evidence finds a Free State intelligence officer as the most likely culprit

A timline of events from the end of the War of Independence to WB Yeats winning the Nobel prize

Co Kerry was the scene of some of the most barbaric acts of the Civil War. Why did it last so long there?

B’fhacthas cuid shuntasach de na poblachtaigh a chuir i gcoinne an chonartha Angla-Éireannaigh nach raibh deiseanna ar fáil dóibh sa Saorstát agus gurbh í an deoraíocht a bhí rompu

The period that followed the 1920s would see Mother and Baby Homes, abuse of Magdalene women and attempts to control women’s reproductive capacity

Final year of Decade of Centenaries programme recalls first step in Ireland taking its place on world stage

Many areas addressed by contributors in this resource link directly to the Leaving Cert syllabus

Many of these articles can serve as a pathway for deeper research on issues that pique pupils’ interest

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attend ceremony outside the GPO

Volume cleverly employs a range of sources to capture both the physical carnage and those at the centre of it as both perpetrators and victims

Mary-Lou McDonald tells crowd of several hundred at Liam Mellows’ grave in Wexford that republicans are ready to bring about a 32-county socialist republic

Democracy’s endurance suggests we got more right than wrong, but there are long shadows

Narrative of political responsibility and need to face down anti-treaty republicans endures. However, most of the 81 anti-treaty soldiers executed were of low rank

In just six months 81 men were executed, 100 years ago

Killester Garden Village was the largest development built in Ireland by the British government for ex-servicemen

The Public Safety Bill resulted in the execution of 81 anti-Treaty prisoners during the Civil War

In the News podcast: Ronan McGreevy talks about the man and his legacy

Diaries he kept from 1918 to 1922 will now be accessible to the public through the National Archives of Ireland

New documentary suggests couple’s hasty marriage may have been to ward off scandal