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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 57: 2015-07-01
Photograph of Larkinites and Sinn Féiners want Home Rule immediately
The never ending procession of amending bills that were expected when the Home Rule was passed in 1914. The enactment of the bill was delayed until the end of the war, a decision with which certain members of Dublin Corporation were unhappy Photo: Irish Life, 17 July 1914. Full collection of Irish Life available in the National Library of Ireland.

Larkinites and Sinn Féiners want Home Rule immediately

Chaos at Dublin Corporation meeting in the wake of controversial votes

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 15 July 1915 - A special meeting of Dublin Corporation ended in disorder last night when a motion calling for the Home Rule Act to be put into operation for all...

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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.