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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 60: 2015-08-12
Photograph of Carnage at Suvla Bay
The 7th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as they prepare to leave the Royal Barracks in May 1915. They were among the troops who landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in August 1915 Photo: National Museum of Ireland

Carnage at Suvla Bay

Beach landings result in enormous loss of life

By Century Ireland

Dardanelles, 17 August 1915 - Tales of loss and heroism are emerging from the Dardanelles as ferocious fighting continues around Suvla Bay in Turkey. This is the second major offensive by allied...

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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.