A new 90-minute documentary will tell the complete story of the Irish Revolution for the first time in colour.

Northern Ireland Attorney General, John Larkin, recently had a pop at the Easter Rising — the usual stuff about it failing the ‘just war’ theory test and having no democratic mandate.

From the pages of the Cork Examiner this week 100 years ago

No one, not the IRA, not Sinn Féin, not Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael, nor any party or organisation, owns or has a monopoly on the Rising or its legacy, writes Danny Morrison.

CALLING the bluff of Greek’s European partners, and retorting with an immediate referendum demonstrated Napoleonic verve by prime minister Alexis Tsipras, writes Gerard Howlin. 

John Bruton’s assertion that the Home Rule Act of 1914 would have ultimately led peacefully to national independence is mere speculation. 

John M Regan

Anti-war activist and lecturer Jim Roche argues that the brave men who signed up so willingly to fight in WW I were victims of a series of lies orchestrated for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many

The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence

Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922

Ryle Dwyer says BBC4 should ask about the kidnapping and killing of Free State officers in Donegal

Taoiseach Enda Kenny described the current economic conditions of the country as “what is in reality a temporary, hand-me-down, financial straitjacket”.

ANTI-TREATY candidates received less than 22% of the first preference votes in the general election of June 1922.

IF Michael Collins hoped the Northern Offensive would concentrate the political focus on Northern Ireland, he must have been sorely disappointed, because the orgy of murder was not confined to the North.

In the first of a two-part series based on his forthcoming book, ‘Michael Collins and the Civil War’, Ryle Dwyer gives a deep insight into why the Big Fellow is often depicted as an architect of modern urban terrorism and how his attempt to secure southern unity spiralled into an orgy of murder and mayhem.

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was the subject of much debate, even among the Irish delegation, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was the subject of much debate, even among the Irish delegation, writes Ryle Dwyer

The Balfour Declaration: The origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Sean Moylan: Rebel Leader

HAVE the Brits finally become European, a discussion paper by the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank asked last week?

THE indefatigable Tom Cooper has written an important and uncomfortable letter (March 1) on the subject of the cynical exploitation of the Irish war dead in the First World War.

THE author of England’s Greatest Spy: Eamon de Valera was interviewed by John Green on Radio Kerry during the week. The 470-page book, by John J Turi, will not be published until the last day of November so it is not possible to comment on it.

IT IS the most quoted statistic in the annals of British military combat.

THE history – or fate – of the Anglo-Irish in the 26 counties is well known. But what of that class’s experience in the North?

SEVERAL letters in favour of the Remembrance Day concert held in Cork City Hall on November 8 based their support for it on the understanding that the Irish Party supported the British government’s conduct of the war until it ended on November 11, 1918.

McCreevy explained he was objecting to Haughey’s leadership because there had been a lowering of political standards, mishandling of the economy, as well as the party’s failure to secure a majority in two successive general elections.

I WAS pleased to be invited by RTÉ to take part in a discussion recently on the merits or otherwise of the singing of God Save The Queen in Croke Park on behalf of the English team on February 24.

AT the end of November Michael Collins had proposed a new oath to be attached to the draft treaty: “I... do solemnly swear to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty King George in acknowledgment of the Association of Ireland in a common citizenship with Great Britain and the group of nations known as the British Commonwealth.”

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

IN the past there have always been people in the wings who have had a vested interest in destroying the various peace initiatives.

PAT MULDOWNEY (Irish Examiner, March 8) raises troubling questions in relation to the Somme but also to Easter 1916.

I ADMIRE the historical sweep of the editorial column in the Daily Telegraph (March 6) with its references to Siegfried Sassoon and Lloyd George.

IT is clear from the responses to President McAleese’s defence of the moral and political status of the Easter Rebellion of 1916, such as that you published by Brian McCaffrey (‘President’s speech under fire,’ Irish Examiner letters, February 7) ...

THE GAA is to be congratulated for its generosity in making Croke Park available for international rugby and soccer matches in 2007 and 2008 during the rebuilding of Lansdowne Road.

YOUR correspondent Dr Gerard Morgan’s enthusiastic backing of Dr Brian Murphy’s claim that the British government ‘betrayed Home Rule is based on the conviction that a falsehood often repeated will eventually become true (letters, December 1).

I WELCOME the important letter by Dr Brian Murphy OSB on the undemocratic opposition to Home Rule in 1910-1914 and afterwards (Irish Examiner, November 28).

YOUR columnist Ryle Dwyer (Irish Examiner, January 8) says that “history is not an exact science, so the current controversy over the Kilmichael ambush is unlikely to be resolved.

RUMOURS that Guinness was planning to wind up operations at St James's Gate, Dublin, and move its headquarters to the Park Royal Brewery near London were finally killed off this week with the news that the Park Royal operation is being closed down instead.