The 3-part documentary series The Irish Civil War tells the epic and often challenging story of the origins, conflict and legacy of the civil war that took place in Ireland in 1922 and 1923. Narrated by Brendan Gleeson, produced in partnership with University College Cork by RTÉ Cork as part of the Decade of Centenary commemorations and based on UCC’s “mammoth and magnificent” Atlas of the Irish Revolution, this documentary series features extensive archive film footage, photographs and materials, interviews with leading academics, archive interviews with contemporary participants and witnesses, firsthand witness accounts read by actors, detailed and dynamic graphic maps based on those featured in the Atlas of the Irish Revolution, and stunning cinematography of the very locations where events took place.

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How the constitution of the largest Democratic Republic in the world was created.

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Tutored by Aristotle, helpless witness to his father's assassination, and a brilliant, pioneering ta...

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There are more than ten thousand monuments across the country that honour the war dead . But what of...

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In the spring of 1798, Napoleon set out with 38,000 men and 10,000 sailors to conquer Egypt.

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