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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 250: 2023-02-08
Photograph of Amnesty offer follows Liam Deasy’s surrender call, but no peace in clear sight
Illustration, which shows anti-treaty forces watching a train crossing a blown up bridge in Co. Tipperary during the civil war Photo: "Illustrazione Del Popolo", Supplemento della Gazzetta del Popolo, Anno III - N. 5, Torino, 4 Feb. 1923

Amnesty offer follows Liam Deasy’s surrender call, but no peace in clear sight

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 10 February 1923 - A statement issued to the press confirming the willingness of anti-treaty IRA prisoner, Liam Deasy to aid the ‘unconditional surrender of all arms and men’...

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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.