Alderman Tadhg Barry was shot three weeks before the signing of the Treaty. We don't know how he would have responded to the Treaty and the split, but he would have acted in a way he thought best for the cause of social justice

The battle of Clonmult marked some of the darkest days of the War of Independence. Sean O'Riordan looks back at the ambush 

Historian Kieran McCarthy looks back at the ambush at Mourne Abbey.

Historian Kieran McCarthy looks back at the Upton train ambush

The stories of two men in West Cork intertwined in the War of Independence. Unlikely to have ever met, one was involved in the killing of the other in the IRA attack on the RIC barracks in Rosscarbery. Decades later, their families were linked through marriage and the war was forgotten. Dan and Flor MacCarthy relate their family’s extraordinary story

Dripsey ambushers were shot in pairs at 15-minute intervals and the response of the Cork IRA was swift and ruthless

The unveiling of the memorial at a grave of 13 IRA members executed by the British was an important day for University College Cork

From the 1916 Rising, when the British Army shelled a large section of valuable property in Dublin’s city centre to terminate the rebellion, down to the end of the War of Independence, the destruction of property by both sides became part of the ...

Gabriel Doherty on the great sacrifice of the hunger strikers of 1920

Cork recorded more violent deaths than Belfast or Dublin in the revolutionary period, more than a third of them civilians. Here, we examine the ongoing work to account for them all — and the Treaty debate that was dividing Ireland 100 years ago