Cormac Moore explains the background to the establishment of the Northern Irish state
Ed Mulhall writes on W.B. Yeats, the ‘Smiling Public Man’ and Free State Senator who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923
This short animation by Scriberia for Century Ireland tracks Ireland's transition from Home Rule to Easter Rising
Dr Justin Dolan Stover, Idaho State University, examines the extent of the physical damage done to Dublin during the Easter Rising
Dublin, 16 October 1915 - Major-General Sir Lovick Bransby Friend, the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in Ireland said yesterday that 1,100 recruits were needed from Ireland every week ‘to replace wastage...
![The title page of 'Through the Garden of Ireland: an illustrated tourist guide to the counties of Wicklow, Wexford and Waterford', compiled by M.J. Maguire [Dublin, 1912].](/centuryireland/images/uploads/article-images/Ed64-Tourism1.jpg)
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The Century Ireland project is an online historical newspaper that tells the story of the events of Irish life a century ago.
