Many excellent resources have been developed for teachers and students over the past decade as part of centenary programmes. Below we provide a list of resources relating to the War of Independence and Civil War.

These Document Packs were put together by the Poetry as Commemoration team for use in workshops.

Poetry as Commemoration Document Pack for Primary Schools

Poetry as Commemoration Document Pack for Adults

UCC The Irish Revolution Project: The Irish War of Independence

Resource packs for teachers created by University College Cork.

Home Rule to Partition – National Museums Northern Ireland

The First Dáil, 21 Jan, 1919 – Dáil 100

The Anglo-Irish Treaty Education Pack – Dept. of Education

Blúiríní Béaloideas/ Folklore Fragments: The War of Independence

Podcast by The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin.

Soloheadbeg Ambush, 21 Jan, 1919

Clare Library: The brave and the bold The War of Independence in County Clare by Brian Spring

This pack for Primary Schools focuses on events that occurred between the years 1919 and 1921 with an emphasis on Co. Clare.

Timeline of The War of Independence in Wexford, Wexford County Council.

Century Ireland: Éamon de Valera and the 1920 American presidential campaign by Prof Bernadette Whelan

The War of Independence comes to Ulster

Century Ireland: Patriotic women and the emotional politics of empire: Ireland and Australia, 1916-1920 by Dr Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Irish Archives Resource: ‘Pledge Ourselves and Our People’

Highlights archival resources that document the 1918 General Election in Ireland and the changes that the election made in the Irish political landscape

Creative Centenaries: Constance Markievicz Graphic Novel

Creative Centenaries: Michael Collins Graphic Novel

Creative Centenaries: Eoin MacNeill Graphic Novel

Creative Centenaries: West Belfast 1912-1922

Creative Centenaries: Commemoration

Irish War of Independence in 12 Minutes – Manny Man Does History (Video)

County Kerry during the period 1919-23 (Part 1)

(Part 2)

Chronology of events 1919-1923

The War of Independence in Galway, 1920–21

Carlow Decade of Centenaries Podcast

The origins and impact of County Carlow’s journey to Independence with Dr Shay Kinsella

The War of Independence in Waterford – Waterford City & County Council

South Dublin Libraries Local Studies Schools Pack

Decade of Centenaries in Kilkenny (1913- 1923) – Year by year

This information booklet for primary schools is produced by Kilkenny County Council Library Service.

County Tipperary 1917-1921 – a history in 80 documents

Part of the ‘Finding Tipperary’ series of publications – Tipperary Studies, Tipperary County Council Library Service
Denis G. Marnane & Mary Guinan Darmody

Roller Skates & Ruins – Decade of Centenaries Exhibition. National Gallery of Ireland.

Kilmaimham Gaol Document Pack – OPW

UCC The Irish Revolution Project: The Treaty and the Civil War

Resource packs for teachers created by University College Cork.

PRONI:  Ireland 1900-1925 — Crisis, War and Revolution.

A Resource for ‘A’ Level Students.

Civil War in Sligo – Sligo Library

Irish Archives Resource: The Present Duty of Irish Women

Includes a section on ‘Women in Politics’ that relates to 1921-1922.

Decade of Centenaries in Kilkenny (1913- 1923) – Year by year

This information booklet for primary schools is produced by Kilkenny County Council Library Service.

Century Ireland: Ireland 1922

Independence, Partition, Civil War by Darragh Gannon & Fearghal McGarry

‘The Inevitable Conflict’ Essays on the Civil War in County Limerick ed. by Seán William Gannon.

Limerick City and County Council

War of Friends, 1922–23: The civil war story of Pádraic Ó Máille and Liam Mellows

Galway City Museum