It is 100 years since the creation of the 26-county Irish Free State. Northern Ireland had the option of joining the newly-created state in December 1922 but chose not to do so.

IrishCentral Contributor Joseph Connell explores how Ireland's Civil War ignited with the shelling of Ireland's most ...

Intent on driving out of the Irish Free State the oath of allegiance to King George, President Eamon de Valera was heartened last week by news that in London the House of Commons was squabbling ...

British and Irish opinion was further provoked last week by a tempest in the teapot of Irish Free State Governor Gen eral James McNeill, appointed by George V but obliged to act on the Free State ...

An Irish Times editorial, headlined 'An end and a beginning', described the inauguration of the Free State on 6 December 1922 'as the most solemn of all occasions in the nation's history' - an ...

In 1926, Paul Manship was selected to participate in an international competition to design the coinage of the Irish Free State. Dublin-born poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) had proposed a ...

The Irish Boundary Commission continued its sittings in Derry yesterday. The following official report was issued: “At today’s sitting of the Irish Boundary Commission, witnesses were heard on ...

The shirt, worn in 1927, is that of the Irish Free State, a predecessor to the FAI, with whom Duggan made five appearances and scored one goal. Advertisement. Advertisement. Advertisement.

A very rare and early Irish Free State £50 bank note bearing the portrait of Lady Lavery is expected to fetch in the region ...

But first, the Fighting Irish and the Nittany Lions battle each other for a chance to win it all. The No. 7-ranked Notre Dame (13-1) take on the No. 6-ranked Penn State (13-2) at Hard Rock Stadium ...

The number of Free State people who sailed directly for Canada last year was 2,964. In 1923 only 203 were recorded. Altogether 13,829 left Free State ports in 1924 – an increase of 3,852 over ...