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An online historical newspaper that reports and provides analysis on the events in Irish life a century ago.

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26 March 1922: Mourners crowd Royal Avenue in Belfast as the Catholic victims of a sectarian attack on the McMahon household are brought to Milltown Cemetery rte.ie/centuryireland…

26 March 1922: Mourners crowd Royal Avenue in Belfast as the Catholic victims of a sectarian attack on the McMahon household are brought to Milltown Cemetery  rte.ie/centuryireland…
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Want a blow by blow account of Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916? Here's a Chronology that takes you through events, day by day, hour by hour - with images, maps and recorded interviews with participants rte.ie/centuryireland…

Want a blow by blow account of Ireland's Easter Rising in 1916? Here's a Chronology that takes you through events, day by day, hour by hour - with images, maps and recorded interviews with participants rte.ie/centuryireland…
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'Pius XI Ascends to the Papacy' - seem an appropriate time to revisit this essay from Laura McAtackney, published originally in the brilliant 'Ireland 1922 book from Royal Irish Academy rte.ie/centuryireland… #Pope #Vatican #VaticanNews

'Pius XI Ascends to the Papacy'  - seem an appropriate time to revisit this essay from Laura McAtackney, published originally in the brilliant 'Ireland 1922 book from <a href="/RIAdawson/">Royal Irish Academy</a> rte.ie/centuryireland… #Pope #Vatican #VaticanNews
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This month marks the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. Some 12,000 Irishmen fought at Gallipoli in Irish regiments - 4,000 never returned home. Our online exhibition about the Irish at Gallipoli is still available at gallipoli.rte.ie

This month marks the 110th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. Some 12,000 Irishmen fought at Gallipoli in Irish regiments - 4,000 never returned home.  Our online exhibition about the Irish at Gallipoli is still available at gallipoli.rte.ie
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#onthisday in 1915, the Lusitania, a British passenger liner, is sunk by a German torpedo eight miles off the Old Head of Kinsale in Co. Cork. It results in the deaths of nearly 1,200 people rte.ie/centuryireland…

#onthisday in 1915, the Lusitania, a British passenger liner, is sunk by a German torpedo eight miles off the Old Head of Kinsale in Co. Cork. It results in the deaths of nearly 1,200 people rte.ie/centuryireland…
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An artist's interpretation of passengers of the Lusitania scrambling for safety in the water off the Cork coast on 7 May 1915. The Lusitania was hit by a German torpedo and disappeared beneath the water level within 33 minutes.

An artist's interpretation of passengers of the Lusitania scrambling for safety in the water off the Cork coast on 7 May 1915. The Lusitania was hit by a German torpedo and disappeared beneath the water level within 33 minutes.
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Art dealer and collector, Hugh Lane, was among those who died when the Lusitania sunk off the Irish coast #OnThisDay in 1915. To learn more about Lane and his life and times, check out this series of short films on our youtube channel youtube.com/playlist?list=…

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On this #bloomsday2025 why not revisit Ed Mulhall’s fantastic #longread on the first sightings of Ulysses – James Joyce’s masterpiece RTÉ rte.ie/centuryireland…

On this #bloomsday2025  why not revisit Ed Mulhall’s fantastic #longread  on the first sightings of Ulysses – James Joyce’s masterpiece <a href="/rte/">RTÉ</a> 
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Another perfect #Bloomsday2025 read from our Century Ireland archive - How James Joyce completed Ulysses – by Ed Mulhall RTÉ RTÉ Archives #Ulysses rte.ie/centuryireland…

Another perfect #Bloomsday2025 read from our Century Ireland archive - How James Joyce completed Ulysses – by Ed Mulhall <a href="/rte/">RTÉ</a> <a href="/RTEArchives/">RTÉ Archives</a> #Ulysses   rte.ie/centuryireland…
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In 2014, Prof Joe Nugent of Boston College talked to Century Ireland about James Joyce and the making of Dubliners, which was published a century before. #Bloomsday2025 #Ulysses youtube.com/watch?v=CbKB7S…