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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 257: 2023-05-17
Photograph of Civil War ends with order to dump arms
Images from the Irish Civil War which took place between 1922 and1923 and beginning in Dublin before spreading out to the rest of the country Photo: National Library of Ireland

Civil War ends with order to dump arms

‘further sacrifice of life would now be in vain’, anti-treaty forces told

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 29 May 1923 - The long running Irish Civil War seems to have come to an end. An order to dump all arms has been issued by Mr. Frank Aiken, Chief...

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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.