While none of the films are new to the internet, many of them are already widely circulated. For instance, Great Cork Treaty (1922), a silent panorama of Michael Collins addressing thousands of people on Cork’s Grand Parade, when the throng is thrown into disarray by gunshots...

The Irish Film Institute and RTÉ are to be congratulated for helping to restore Irish Destiny (€19.95), a fictionalised film set in the War of Independence and launched at the 10th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1926.