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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 268: 2023-10-18
Photograph of Thousands join hunger strikes across Irish prison system
Front cover illustration of 'Le Petit Journal illustre', depicting hunger strikers in Mountjoy Jail refusing food from prison officers. Photo: Le Petit Journal illustré, 28 October 1923

Thousands join hunger strikes across Irish prison system

Government takes hard-line and refuses to contemplate political prisoner releases

By Century Ireland

Dublin, 30 October 1923 - About 8,500 prisoners are now believed to be on hunger strike across the Free-State’s crisis-afflicted prisons. The spread of the hunger strikes inside the prisons has...

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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.