Sectarian violence in the north claims more lives
Belfast, 17 May 1922 – There was chaos on the streets of Belfast yesterday after gunshots were directed at the funeral cortège of Robert Beattie, a postman and prominent Orange...
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
Belfast, 17 May 1922 – There was chaos on the streets of Belfast yesterday after gunshots were directed at the funeral cortège of Robert Beattie, a postman and prominent Orange...
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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.