Morning Ireland Extra

Shane McElhatton, Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, is joined at Dublin Castle by historians David McCullagh and John Gibney, as well as Laura Cahillane, law lecturer at the University of Limerick, to remember the day British rule in Ireland formally came to an end, and the first Irish Govt took up the reins of power

Shane McElhatton, Editor of the Decade of Centenaries, is at the National Concert Hall with historian Jennifer Redmond and researcher Micheál O'Fathartaigh to discuss the ratification of the Treaty there 100 years earlier.

Shane McElhatton, RTÉ Series Editor, Decade of Commemorations, discusses the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty with historians Heather Jones and Maurice Walsh, while John S. Doyle reviews the newspapers from the that time

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