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

Women and children feature alongside household names in the files of more than 1,500 people whose War of Independence and Civil War roles are disclosed in historic records published today.

Thomas Greehy was just 19 when he died in the Civil War trying to remove guns from an IRA arms dump in Co Waterford.

A 10-year-old boy killed in a Civil War shootout in Tipperary may have been the youngest IRA member during the Irish revolution.

Members of the Capuchin order had key roles in the Irish revolution, writes Niall Murray

A magnificent gift which was given to former Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney and his wife on their day of their wedding has gone on public display for the first time.

The young revolutionary who killed the only policeman to die violently between 1916 and the War of Independence later became an early member of An Garda Síochána, a police researcher has found.

Anti-Treaty leader’s personal steel was cloaked by his inoffensive character, writes Conor McNamara

Sonny O’Neill, the man believed to have killed Michael Collins at Béal na Bláth, described being there when applying for a military pension 13 years later — but said nothing about the gunfight or firing the fatal shot.

On the 90th anniversary of the infamous Army Mutiny, Ryle Dwyer highlights aspects that history has overlooked

With reference to Dr T. Ryle Dwyer’s article (Irish Examiner, Nov 1) concerning the (Percy) Creek memoir, as the advising historian on the BBC Radio 4 show, I can confirm that the Creek document was not used in isolation: to the contrary, his army records and his unit records were checked, and British Cabinet documents were employed extensively in the making of the programme.

Garda Jim Herlihy details the extraordinary life and times of Patrick Joseph ‘PJ’ Kerrigan, an ex-RIC member, soldier in two armies, and bigamist, who became the first Civic Guard of the Irish Free State

It’s enough to make the toes of every serving garda curl. The first member of the force has been exposed as a bigamist, forger and debtor, and was sacked for beating a prisoner.

GARDAÍ have issued an appeal for help tracing the relatives of a fallen hero who is due to be honoured by the force.

A 105-year-old War of Independence veteran who served alongside Michael Collins, died today.

President Joseph Kabila declared a “general mobilisation” across Congo after an eastern border city fell to renegade commanders, and pledged Congo’s army would protect Africa’s third-largest nation.