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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 264: 2023-08-23
Photograph of Election ’23 - Pro-Treaty Cumann na n Gaedhael to be largest part in new Dáil
Some of the candidates elected - top, l t r: Dan McCarthy, Capt. Redmond, Sean Milroy bottom - Mrs Cathal Brugha, Eamon de Valera, Countess Markievicz Photo: Irish Life, September 1923

Election ’23 - Pro-Treaty Cumann na n Gaedhael to be largest part in new Dáil

Labour loses ground, while Independents perform well

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 3 September 1923 - As it was in the third and last Dáil, the pro-Treaty Cumann na Gaedhael will be the largest party in the incoming fourth Dá...

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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.