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A Hidden History: Tony Connelly on his RIC constable grandfather

Tony Connelly's grandfather was an RIC constable who went north and joined the RUC after the War of Independence. In a new documentary, Connelly traces an extraordinary family story

Battle of the Four Courts

Civil War story: how one man met his opponent decades later

Michael Portillo visits Dublin Castle in Taking Sides.

Taking Sides: Britain's involvement in the Irish Civil War

Dervilia Roche and some young historians explore History on Your Doorstep. Photo: Photocall Ireland

"It's part of who we are today": today's kids and the Civil War

National Army troops during the Battle of Dublin

Explore the Irish Civil War project on RTE.ie History

About the Civil War project

The Civil War project is the product of a partnership between RTÉ History, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and The Atlas of the Irish Revolution

The Civil War project partners

Civil War documentaries

The Irish Civil War documentary

The Irish Civil War: watch the documentary

Beyond the Bullets

Beyond the Bullets: watch the documentary series

Churchill

Taking Sides: watch the documentary here

The Alexander family farm

The Silent Civil War: watch the documentary series

Civil War Ireland then and now

Civil War Ireland then and now: O'Connell St ambulance

The location outside Dublin Castle

Civil War Ireland then and now: British soliders queue

Cathal Brugha's funeral

Civil War Ireland then and now: Cathal Brugha's funeral

Civil War Ireland then and now: Waterford is taken

O'Connell St, Limerick, then and now

Civil War Ireland then and now: Limerick at war

Bruff then and now

Civil War Ireland then and now: children meet soldiers

O'Connell Street/Henry street junction

Civil War Ireland then and now: effigy on armoured car

The Pro Cathedral

Civil War Ireland then and now: Collins's funeral

The junction of what is now Parnell Street and Cumberland Street

Civil War Ireland then and now: Dublin evacuees

O'Connell Street then and now

Civil War Ireland then and now: soldiers venture out

Henry St in 1922 and today

Civil War Ireland then and now: gunfire on Henry Street

The site in 1922 and 2022

Civil War Ireland then and now: soldiers on Lee banks

Women and the Civil War

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Crochet, cards and céilís: Civil War women behind bars

The female Civil War internees kept themselves busy behind bars - as these extraordinary artefacts from the Kilmainham Gaol Museum archives show

Sighle Humphreys, who was interned during the Civil War

'The Mainstay of the Trouble': imprisonment of 'suspect women'

Two uniformed Cumann na mBan members stand guard over the body of Cathal Brugha in 1922. © RTÉ Photographic Archives

Soldiers of the Republic: Cumann na mBan and the Civil War

Battle of Dublin

Captain Eileen McGrane

"Most Effective Women": The story of Eileen McGrane