A Century of Recovery – and Beyond - Marking the centenary of the Four Courts fire (1922) and the launch of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland

‘The place swarmed with very young boys, some as young as fifteen. … Rifles were clicked and rattled while everyone laughed and joked and made merry.’ – Clare Sheridan In Many Places (1923) on the garrison at the Four Courts in late June 1922. Members of the Anti-Treaty garrison on the parapet of the Four Courts, April-June 1922. Credit: Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum / OPW and Eitne O’Brien McKeown. 23