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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 27: 2014-05-07
Photograph of Armed patrols seek to intercept arms shipments
Soldiers prepare military exercises in readiness for immediate despatch to Ulster if necessary. Photo: Irish Life, May 1914. Full collection of Irish Life available in the National Library of Ireland.

Armed patrols seek to intercept arms shipments

No arrests of public office holders involved in Ulster gun running

By Century Ireland

Augustine Birrell, the Chief Secretary of Ireland, told the House of Commons in London yesterday that amongst the men and women who were involved with the gunrunning by the Ulster...

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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.