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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 227: 2022-03-23
Photograph of Well-known Catholic family slaughtered in attack on Belfast home
Public sympathy in Belfast with the victims of the MacMahon massacre: The funeral procession in Royal Avenue on its way to Milltown Cemetery on 26 March 1922 Photo: The Illustrated London News, April 1 1922, p.159

Well-known Catholic family slaughtered in attack on Belfast home

Perpetrators of the massacre are said to have worn uniforms

By Century Ireland

Belfast, 31 March 1922 – Six people were killed following a sectarian attack on the home of a Catholic in Belfast on 24 March. The victims have been named as Owen McMahon (57) and...

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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.