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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 241: 2022-10-05
Photograph of Mulcahy invokes 1916 legacy at Gormanstown ceremony
Richard Mulcahy, Minister of Defence to Dáil Eireann Photo: Irish Life, June 30 and July 14

Mulcahy invokes 1916 legacy at Gormanstown ceremony

By Century Ireland

Gormanstown, 9 October 1922 – General Richard Mulcahy has invoked the memory of Patrick Pearse and the other leaders of the 1916 rebellion in a speech in support of the national army. Mulcahy,...

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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.