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Origins of Northern Ireland

Origins of Northern Ireland

Cormac Moore explains the background to the establishment of the Northern Irish state

Bloody Sunday, 1920

Bloody Sunday, 1920

Mark Duncan on the events and aftermath of 21 November 1920

Yeats: the Nobel Poet

Yeats: the Nobel Poet

Ed Mulhall writes on W.B. Yeats, the ‘Smiling Public Man’ and Free State Senator who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923

Roger Casement: High Treason -

Roger Casement: High Treason -

‘High Treason’ & the Politics of Hanging

Ireland 1912 - 1916

Ireland 1912 - 1916

This short animation by Scriberia for Century Ireland tracks Ireland's transition from Home Rule to Easter Rising

 The Destruction of Dublin

The Destruction of Dublin

Dr Justin Dolan Stover, Idaho State University, examines the extent of the physical damage done to Dublin during the Easter Rising

Issue 22: 2014-02-26
Photograph of Ten dead in Fethard sea disaster
Crew members of a Norwegian vessel, Mexico, who survived what is known as the Fethard Lifeboat Disaster. This picture was taken on 24 February 1914 Photo: National Library of Ireland, PWP 2536

Ten dead in Fethard sea disaster

By Century Ireland

Ten men are dead following a shipping disaster off the Wexford coast. Nine of the dead men were members of the Fethard Lifeboat Crew who were attempting to save the...

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Century Ireland

The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.