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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 42: 2014-12-03
Photograph of 140,000 Irishmen now serving in the Great War claims Redmond
Mr John Redmond has claimed that there are 140,000 Irishmen fighting for the British army in the Great War. Photo: © National Portrait Gallery, London

140,000 Irishmen now serving in the Great War claims Redmond

Irish nationalists will bear burden on behalf of Empire

By Century Ireland

Tuam, 7 December 1914 - Claims that Irish nationalists have shirked their responsibilities to the British Empire by failing to enlist in the British Army have been rejected by the leader of...

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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.