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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 53: 2015-05-06
Photograph of Lusitania sunk by German torpedo
A drawing made for the New York Herald and the London Sphere shows the R.M.S. Lusitania as a second torpedo hits behind a gaping hole in the hull. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Lusitania sunk by German torpedo

Anxious families await news of loved ones who were on board

By Century Ireland

Queenstown, 8 May 1915 - More than 1,300 lives are feared lost after the Lusitania was hit by a torpedo off the south coast of Ireland yesterday. The famous Cunard Steamship Company ship...

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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.