Special Report: Complexities of revolutionary past can be better understood by opening of files

The military pensions archive not only adds to our understanding of the violence that gripped

The deaths of anti-Treaty IRA members in the Civil War are under the spotlight in the latest release of files from one of the most valuable collections of historic records around the violence in Ireland a century ago.

They are among the files of over 1,500 people who took part in revolutionary actions, not just in the War of Independence and Civil War, across the country between 1916 and 1923.