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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 223: 2022-01-26
Photograph of Lloyd George ‘trickery’ to blame as Collins and Craig meeting ends in border disagreement
Map of the six counties showing each region's attitude towards partition. The areas shaded black are opposed to partition. The areas with straight vertical lines are in favour of partition. The areas with crosses are split evenly Photo: Irish Life, 17 February 1922. Full collection of Irish Life available in the National Library of Ireland.

Lloyd George ‘trickery’ to blame as Collins and Craig meeting ends in border disagreement

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 3 February 1922 – A meeting between Michael Collins and Sir James Craig has ended in disagreement on the issue of the border between the north and south of Ireland. The...

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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.