https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/en-ieRTÉ 2026-RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, Registration No: 155076, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland.Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:16:38 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/2024/0103/1424625-family-histories-revolutionary-soldier-liam-hayes/When the British Government didn't grant Ireland the independence the country had voted for in 1918, a young man from Tipperary decided to get involved in the revolution. Two years later, Liam Hayes was on the run. His grandson Peter Doyle tells his storyWed, 03 Jan 2024 15:03:19 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/2024/0103/1424625-family-histories-revolutionary-soldier-liam-hayes/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:24:29 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/2023/0227/1359208-civil-war-ireland-then-and-now-british-soldiers-queue/A century ago, Ireland was a theatre of war. How have the locations changed since then?Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:13:21 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/2023/0227/1359208-civil-war-ireland-then-and-now-british-soldiers-queue/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/2022/1122/1337595-civil-war-ireland-then-and-now-collinss-funeral/In 1922, Ireland was a theatre of war. How have the locations changed since then?Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:23:40 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/2022/1122/1337595-civil-war-ireland-then-and-now-collinss-funeral/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/1013/1329052-could-michael-collins-have-avoided-civil-war/Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:26:21 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/1013/1329052-could-michael-collins-have-avoided-civil-war/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/player/movie/cold-case-collins/311112744141Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:17:53 +0100https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/cold-case-collins/311112744141Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0822/1318148-cold-case-collins-bonus-scenes-from-the-docu-drama/Drawing heavily on a hundred years of historical scholarship and verified witness testimony, the new RTÉ documentary Cold Case Collins imagines an investigation that never happened. You can watch bonus scenes from the show here.Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:03:40 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0822/1318148-cold-case-collins-bonus-scenes-from-the-docu-drama/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0821/722718-michael-collins/Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:31:16 +0100https://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0821/722718-michael-collins/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0817/1316310-interactive-map-the-ambush-that-killed-michael-collins/In 1922, a shooting in a country lane changed Irish history. And while it's impossible to know exactly how it played out minute by minute, this map by Mike Murphy shows the most likely scenarioWed, 17 Aug 2022 16:03:34 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0817/1316310-interactive-map-the-ambush-that-killed-michael-collins/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0815/1315786-the-archaeology-of-an-ambush-surviving-traces-of-beal-na-bla/The location of Michael Collins's dramatic death is one of the most well known sites in modern Irish history - but what traces are left of the events of that fateful day? Damian Shiels and Niall Murray reveal allMon, 15 Aug 2022 10:20:40 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0815/1315786-the-archaeology-of-an-ambush-surviving-traces-of-beal-na-bla/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0815/1315819-the-death-of-michael-collins/The shocking death of the Commander-in-Chief shook not only his loved ones, but the political establishments in Ireland and Britain. Gabriel Doherty explainsMon, 15 Aug 2022 12:18:00 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0815/1315819-the-death-of-michael-collins/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0803/1313790-the-catholic-church-and-the-irish-civil-war/While the Catholic Church became one of the most important pro-Treaty organisations in the country, some individual clerics offered support to the anti-Treaty side during the Civil War, as Brian Heffernan explainsWed, 03 Aug 2022 16:47:57 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0803/1313790-the-catholic-church-and-the-irish-civil-war/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0803/1313771-censorship-and-propaganda-during-the-civil-war/The Civil War was fought not only in the streets and townlands of Ireland, but also in the pages of newspapers and pamphlets, as Donal Ó Drisceoil explainsWed, 03 Aug 2022 15:54:51 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/michael-collins/2022/0803/1313771-censorship-and-propaganda-during-the-civil-war/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/conventional-phase/2022/0714/1310178-what-was-the-conventional-phase-of-the-civil-war/There were two phases to the Civil War. The first is known as the Conventional phase - and it was more dramatic than its name suggests, as Helene O'Keeffe explains.Thu, 14 Jul 2022 10:42:39 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/conventional-phase/2022/0714/1310178-what-was-the-conventional-phase-of-the-civil-war/Conventional Phasehttps://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0404/1290254-the-1922-pact-election/In June 1922, the people of Ireland went to the polls. Collins and De Valera signed a pact that candidates on both sides would not fight the campaign as pro- or anti-Treatyites. Did it work?Mon, 04 Apr 2022 10:27:23 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0404/1290254-the-1922-pact-election/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/bloody-sunday/2020/1121/1145152-the-squad-michael-collins-and-bloody-sunday/When Michael Collins ordered the mass assassination of British intelligence agents, it was the "gamble of all gambles" that became the tipping point in the War of IndependenceSat, 21 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/bloody-sunday/2020/1121/1145152-the-squad-michael-collins-and-bloody-sunday/bloody sundayhttps://www.rte.ie/history/2021/1208/1265508-the-castle-has-fallen-the-transfer-of-power/On the day the new Irish government formally took the reins of power at Dublin Castle, Michael Collins told Arthur Griffith that "the Castle has fallen!" But the withdrawal of British power from the Castle was a longer and more complex process.Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:11:43 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/2021/1208/1265508-the-castle-has-fallen-the-transfer-of-power/Historyhttps://www.rte.ie/history/dublin-castle/2022/0104/1269737-blurred-lines-the-provisional-government-of-the-irish-free-state/The British may have formally handed over power in January 1922, but the subsequent creation of a new government was a complex business. Helene O'Keeffe explains what happened.Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:31:53 +0000https://www.rte.ie/history/dublin-castle/2022/0104/1269737-blurred-lines-the-provisional-government-of-the-irish-free-state/Dublin Castle