🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨 🇮🇪The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins🇮🇪 In the wake of Sir Henry Wilson’s assassination and the divisive Anglo-Irish Treaty, Ireland spiralled into civil war. The split ran deep: was the Irish public truly for or against the Treaty? Could Michael Collins bring the bloodshed to an end? And why did his bitter rift with Éamon de Valera prove so destructive? In August 1922, Collins, hero of independence, was ambushed in his home county of Cork by anti-Treaty forc

The Silent Civil War: a fascinating two part documentary about a project to record memories of the Irish Civil War that were passed on through families and communities throughout Ireland. During filming the group unearth a previously unheard trove of audio recordings with men and women central to the Irish revolutionary period. The tapes had remained buried in an attic in the United States for fifty years. The #SilentCivilWar starts tonight at 9.35pm | @rteplayer | RTÉ One