One of the folks traipsing from door to door this week tells us about the varied reactions people have to Census 2022 — including the unique new time capsule section

Historian Kieran McCarthy looks back at the Upton train ambush

Mary MacSwiney's most famous speech was fuelled by the memory of her brother's last days

Alderman Tadhg Barry was shot three weeks before the signing of the Treaty. We don't know how he would have responded to the Treaty and the split, but he would have acted in a way he thought best for the cause of social justice

The battle of Clonmult marked some of the darkest days of the War of Independence. Sean O'Riordan looks back at the ambush 

Dripsey ambushers were shot in pairs at 15-minute intervals and the response of the Cork IRA was swift and ruthless

Historian Kieran McCarthy looks back at the ambush at Mourne Abbey.

An active Cumann na mBan member since the age of 20 and from a well-known republican family, Blarney Street’s Maighréad Uí Luasa was another woman who risked her job, arrest and imprisonment during this time.

Flowers, arms, and a mayor’s last moments — the Duggan sisters, florists Peg and Annie, seamstress Sara, and school teacher Brighid, were four such women deeply involved in the city’s Republican activities.

UCC said they expect to proceed with detailed design and tendering of the remaining works at Boole House in 2022

A Cork Harbour town which was the last port of the call for the doomed Titanic will mark the 110th anniversary of the tragedy early next month with its first public commemoration of the disaster since the pandemic.

The chapel was opened in November 1916, just a few months after the Easter Rising

New evidence of Michael Collins evading the Black and Tans by masquerading as an elderly Jewish man on his way to synagogue, and speaking "gibberish" has been unearthed by genealogist Stuart Rosenblatt.

Prof. Murphy became well known for his commentary on current affairs, especially on Northern Ireland

Conor Brady, former chair of the Garda Ombudsman joins Mick on this week's podcast

On Dangerous Ground: A memoir of the Irish Revolution is edited by Hilary Dully and she is this week’s guest on the podcast

A new interactive map will give users the opportunity to explore over 2,000 IRA companies across the island of Ireland from the War of Independence to the Civil War.

Friday, January 7, 2022, marks 100 years since Dáil Éireann ratified the Treaty. But what happened next? As the ink dried on the newly signed Anglo-Irish Treaty, Michael Collins went on the road to sell the deal. In March, he addressed a crowd of 50,000 in Cork city centre. Rebekah McCormack looks at how the Cork Examiner covered the event and assesses its impact

With the signing of the Treaty, the World Congress of the Irish Race - designed to be an extravagant showcase of the solidarity and common purpose of the Irish race in the face of British aggression - was attended by pro- and anti-Treaty representatives and ended as a diplomatic embarrassment, Helene O’Keeffe

After the last few years, it's small wonder we'd look back and take stock. But it's vital that we also stay focused on our shared future

For the first few weeks of the talks that lead to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish delegation lead by Michael Collins enjoyed the better of the exchanges with the British. However, the negotiations began to turn and ended up with, as Collins famously expressed, the signing of his own death warrant, writes UCC historian Gabriel Doherty

The six women elected to Dáil Éireann, dismissed by their male colleagues as the grieving wives, mothers and sisters of the heroic dead, were political forces who had each arrived at a strongly held position on the Treaty, writes Deputy Political Editor Elaine Loughlin

In 1990, the collector had bought the German Luger 9mm firearms, which were believed to have been kept at a depot in Dublin's Clancy Barracks

Partition saw both of Ireland's Christian religions or churches embracing or endorsing or aligning themselves with political systems or political establishments where doing so advanced their own aims.