RTÉ History - The Sea Landings

Turning point: the Battle of Cork

WD Hogan

The man who photographed the Civil War

Emmet Dalton, seen here on his wedding day in 1922. Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Emmet Dalton: the man behind the sea landings

Soldiers on board one of the ships heading from Dublin to Cork

The Civil War on water

Blacksod was one of the lighthouses raided in the Civil War

No means of defence: raids on lighthouses during the Civil War

About the Civil War project

The Civil War project is the product of a partnership between RTÉ History, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and The Atlas of the Irish Revolution

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Civil War Munster then and now

In 1922, Ireland was a theatre of war. How have the locations changed since then?

Conventional Phase

Playing under the flag: the sporting world and the Civil War

The story behind the bloodiest day of combat in the Civil War

The National Army's seaborne landing in Co Kerry 100 years ago changed the course of the conflict