Pact Electionhttps://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/en-ieRTÉ 2026-RTÉ Commercial Enterprises Ltd, Registration No: 155076, Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland.Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:50:51 +0100Taking Sides? How voters responded to the "pact election"https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0530/1302041-taking-sides-understanding-the-treaty-vote/Both pro- and anti- Treaty candidates agreed not to make the Treaty a key part of their campaigns in the 1922 general election. A lofty idea - so how did the "pact election" work in practice? Bill Kissane explains.Mon, 30 May 2022 15:41:32 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0530/1302041-taking-sides-understanding-the-treaty-vote/HistoryPracticalities of the future: the 1922 Constitution Committeehttps://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0530/1302024-practicalities-of-the-future-the-1922-constitution-committee/We might think the Irish constitution was created in 1937, but in 1922 a committee gathered to draft what would be the country's first constitution. As the National Archives' collection of the Committee's papers reveals, it would be a difficult job.Mon, 30 May 2022 14:34:07 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0530/1302024-practicalities-of-the-future-the-1922-constitution-committee/HistoryClass warfare: was there a social basis to the Civil War divide?https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0427/1294722-class-warfare-how-the-civil-war-divide-reflects-social-fractures/The victory of the pro-Treaty Free State has been viewed by some as a triumph of bourgeois Ireland over the "men of no property". But what does the Civil War really tell us about social fractures in the early 1920s? Gavin Foster explains.Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:23:22 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0427/1294722-class-warfare-how-the-civil-war-divide-reflects-social-fractures/HistoryThe 1922 'Pact' Electionhttps://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/HistoryPress, Propaganda and the Treaty splithttps://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0404/1290242-press-propaganda-and-the-the-treaty-spit/In 1922, the Irish media overwhelmingly supported the Treaty. What effect did that have on the Civil War? Donal Ó Drisceoil explains.Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:54:47 +0100https://www.rte.ie/history/pact-election/2022/0404/1290242-press-propaganda-and-the-the-treaty-spit/History