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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 240: 2022-09-21
Photograph of Removing king from Irish constitution would be an invitation to declare a republic
Portrait of George Gavan Duffy (1882–1951) an Irish politician, barrister and judge. Oil painting by Sir John Lavery RA (1856–1941) Photo: Hugh Lane Gallery

Removing king from Irish constitution would be an invitation to declare a republic

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 27 September 1922 – As Dáil Éireann continues to debate the new Irish constitution, a proposal to remove a reference to the king has been defeated due to...

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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.