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

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.

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 ...

The constitution of the Irish Free State became law on 6 December 1922. Under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed on 6 December 1921, the constitution had to come into force within a year.

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 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 ...

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

The 1926 census was the first of the Irish Free State and the website with the data will go live on April 18, 2026. It will be fully digitised, searchable and freely available online, with the aim ...

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 ...