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London, 11 January 1916 - The second reading of the Compulsory Service Bill enjoyed a huge majority in the House of Commons today. The Irish Parliamentary Party withdrew all its opposition to...
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Ed Mulhall writes on W.B. Yeats, the ‘Smiling Public Man’ and Free State Senator who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923
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London, 11 January 1916 - The second reading of the Compulsory Service Bill enjoyed a huge majority in the House of Commons today. The Irish Parliamentary Party withdrew all its opposition to...
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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.