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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 61: 2015-08-26
Photograph of Dubliners lead the charge at Suvla Bay as savage fighting continues
Members of the 'Pals' Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the Royal Barracks preparing to leave for training at Basingstoke before being sent to Gallipoli Photo: National Museum of Ireland

Dubliners lead the charge at Suvla Bay as savage fighting continues

Irish Times defends Gallipoli campaign

By Century Ireland

Gallipoli, 28 August 1915 - News of Irish soldiers dying at Gallipoli comes now almost every day as fighting continues on the shores of Suvla Bay. As the British army and its...

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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.