Explainer: Negotiating the Treaty, October-December 1921
The ‘Treaty negotiations’ began in London on 11 October 1921 and culminated in the signature, by British and Irish negotiators...
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Explainer: Establishing the First Dáil
The First Dáil met in public session in the Round Room of Dublin’s Mansion House...
Read moreThe Origins of Northern Ireland
The exclusion of Ulster from any Irish home rule settlement became the overriding issue of the third home rule bill...
Read moreExplainer: Who were the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries?
The Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries were part of the British crown forces in Ireland (which also included the...
Read moreExplainer: The Kilmichael Ambush
What was the Kilmichael Ambush and was it militarily significant? On 28 November 1920, exactly a week after the events of &lsquo...
Read moreExplainer: What was the Gallipoli campaign?
VISIT OUR SITE ON THE IRISH EXPERIENCE AT GALLIPOLI Why was Gallipoli important? In late 1914 it was clear to the...
Read moreExplainer: Ireland 1912-1916: An animated history from Home Rule to Easter Rising
This animated film is produced By Scriberia Films for Century Ireland. Narration by Marian Richardson (RTÉ)
Read moreExplainer: Who took part in the Antwerp Olympics?
The 7th Summer Olympics were held in the Belgian city of Antwerp. These were the first games since before the...
Read moreExplainer: Who were the RIC & DMP?
13 January 2020 - The recent row that erupted over the now deferred plans to commemorate members of the Royal...
Read moreExplainer: The Paris Peace Conference
What was the Paris Peace Conference? The Paris Peace Conference (also the Versailles Peace Conference) was an international summit of...
Read moreExplainer: The Democratic Programme of the First Dáil
What was it? The Democratic Programme was one of three major documents endorsed at the meeting of the First D...
Read moreExplainer: Why did the United States join World War One?
War in Europe began in the late summer of 1914 and from the outset the United States clung to a policy...
Read moreExplainer: What was the Easter Rising?
The Easter Rising took place in Dublin, and a few outposts across the country, between Monday 24 April and Sunday 29 April, 1916....
Read moreExplainer: The First World War
Why did the First World War break out? The immediate cause of the war was the assassination by Bosnian Serb...
Read moreExplainer: What was Home Rule?
What was Home Rule? Home Rule was the demand that the governance of Ireland be returned from Westminster to a...
Read moreCentury Ireland
The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.