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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 260: 2023-06-28
Photograph of New Free State public safety legislation condemned as worse than British repression
Republican prisoners captured during the attack on Passage West being marched to the Cork Gaol for detention in 1922 Photo: National Library of Ireland, HOGW 12

New Free State public safety legislation condemned as worse than British repression

By Century Ireland

Dublin 11 July 1923 - New public safety legislation proposed by the Free State government is more extreme and repressive than regulations imposed by the British authorities in recent years, the D...

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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.