Civil War 1922-1923

Film archive from revolutionary Ireland to be sold at auction

Guide price of €200,000-€300,000 for six hours of footage from Rising, War of Independence and Civil War

Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War: ‘History that Irish people may prefer not to know’

Television: A quasi-official ambassador for the British perspective, Michael Portillo brings viewers on a fun dash through the archives

Róisín Ingle: Modern Dublin smells mostly of marijuana, not manure

I grew very fond of English novelist VS Pritchett after coming across his sublime observations of Dublin - he had an understanding of what made the city special

Michael Portillo: ‘Conservatives see Ireland exclusively through the unionist prism’

The former Conservative politician and historian on his new documentary about the Irish Civil War

Sheila O’Flanagan: Over tea at the Gresham, Gran would tell me about bowsies and blackguards, checkpoints and raids

Sheila O’Flanagan: Her stories, and my grandfather’s autograph book from his Civil War internment, inspired my new novel

WT Cosgrave expressed private regret over 1922 executions in recently discovered letter

Cosgrave said: ‘Regarding executions, I regret them as much as anyone else if not more so’

Rite & Reason: Changes to Constitution on women in the home first mooted 27 years ago

If the priests took a conservative view of where a woman’s place should be, so did others – including The Irish Times

The Silent Civil War review: A gripping story of ordinary people who felt they had to do terrible things

Television: Part one of this two-part documentary explores the bloody Irish conflict over which a collective memory fog descended the moment it ended

‘It was disastrous, I was wrong’: 50-year-old tapes of interviews with Civil War veterans are made public

Fascinating interviews with 32 people, including Frank Aiken, Seán MacBride and Máire Comerford

Joe Biden’s visit to Ireland may not result in desired ‘bounce’ for US president

For many of the 32 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry, that identity is becoming more marginal

Former Fianna Fáil minister ‘wary’ of any change to Irish neutrality

Policy has served country well in helping to develop strong tradition of promoting world peace, says Éamon Ó Cuív

Liam Lynch, To Declare a Republic: A nuanced portrait of an ‘ill-suited commander’ by Gerard Shannon

A deep dive into the minutiae of the back-and-forth in the months following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Reconciliation ceremony to mark the centenary of the end of the Civil War

Event to celebrate Ireland’s entry into the League of Nations in 1923 will close the Decade of Centenaries

Civil War commentators guilty of lazy and inaccurate self-judgment, says author

Dr Tim Horgan rejects suggestions of moral comparison between anti-Treaty IRA men and Free State soldiers who killed them

A rogue priest, a pregnant housekeeper and the murder of a doctor in a small Irish town

100 years on, the trauma of a doctor’s killing still ripples through the town

Final letter of Kerry Civil War victim reached mother after six years and 10,000km

Letter from Stephen Buckley – killed at Countess Bridge, Killarney – crossed the Atlantic twice before it reached his mother

Free State attempted fourth atrocity in Co Kerry on same day as Ballyseedy massacre

Historian Dr Richard McElligott says failed bombing in Scartaglin could have killed another five anti-Treaty IRA members

It is not too late to correct record about Ballyseedy and Countess Bridge

Advisory group recommends solemn, inclusive, stand-alone commemoration for Civil War

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