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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 47: 2015-02-11
Photograph of Plot to kill Roger Casement
The city of Cristiania [Oslo] where Sir Roger Casement is claiming there was a plot against his life. Inset left: Sir Roger Casement. Inset Right: Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, to whom Sir Roger addressed the letter in which he made these claims. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division / National Library of Ireland, KE 009 / National Portrait Gallery, London

Plot to kill Roger Casement

Servant offered $25,000 to commit murder

By Century Ireland

Berlin, 20 February 1915 - Sir Roger Casement has made public a letter alleging that the British government has been engaged in a criminal conspiracy to have him captured and murdered. WATCH:...

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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.