Kevin Barry

No one felt safe anywhere in Ireland during the first seven months of 1921

Cork suffered most deaths (557), followed by Dublin (360), Antrim (232), Tipperary (158)

Mary MacSwiney: The mourning sister who turned to politics

An uncompromising stance on the Treaty negotiations was indelibly formed by the experience of watching her brother, Terence MacSwiney, die on hunger strike

The Rules of Revelation: Violence and verve in modern-day Cork

Old hurts and grievances are aired in Lisa McInerney's engaging third novel

Eclectic contents sale from lodge owned by first breeder of alpaca in Ireland

Mid-1700s painting of ancestor of owner Xandria Williams among more than 800 lots

David Kitt: ‘I listened to Irish acts when I was on my own in a new city, craving home’

Soundtrack of My Life: The musician on songs that made him feel less alone during lockdown

House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal

Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce

Leagues O’Toole: ‘We need to give artists a sense of self-worth’

MusicTown is online-only for a second year, filling a creative void caused by the pandemic

Last letters of executed republican released to mark centenary

‘I shouldn’t have written to you at all only it is the eve of our execution’ - Barney Ryan (20)

Claire Byrne’s inconvenient facts burst Stephen Donnelly’s bubble

Radio review: The calmly forensic style of the host unpicks the Minister for Health’s assertions

Diarmaid Ferriter: Bloody Sunday 1920 changed British attitudes to Ireland

Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce

Ardal O’Hanlon on his grandfather’s Bloody Sunday role: ‘He was one of the good guys’

‘Thanks to people like him, people like me don’t have to make such difficult decisions’

Dispute over War of Independence plaque at Dublin tenement museum

Council officers oppose move to honour Thomas Bryan, one of the ‘Forgotten 10’

Dogs of War – Frank McNally on the terrier campaign of Michael Collins

An Irishman’s Diary

Twelve artists elected to Aosdána

Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film

A century on: how partition divided Ireland and why it still matters

We are still living with the consequences of the Government of Ireland Act (1920)

Sheltered housing evacuated as fire battled at former Skibbereen convent

Large plumes of smoke seen spiralling over derelict building near centre of Co Cork town

My cancer scare, the marathon and me

Conor Lane, an Irish cancer survivor living in the UK, reflects on a turbulent time

In the classroom – junior cycle

This supplement provides a range of readings which can support teachers in bringing history learning outcomes to life

1920 marked by violence, sectarian tensions and the creation of Northern Ireland

The events of the year and the feelings they engendered are still felt to the present day

Diarmaid Ferriter: It’s still hard to rise above the emotion of the War of Independence

It invokes such partiality that, 100 years later, untangling its knotted legacy is not easy

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