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September 29 1923 Splendid Progress of Royal Bank of Ireland At the 87th annual general meeting of the Company of the Royal Bank of Ireland Limited, held in the banks offices, Foster Place, Dublin, yesterday, Mr Barrington Jellett, who presided, said they met there when the conditions prevailing in the country were much brighter than at the last meeting, and although the outlook was still clouded the directors retained their confidence in the future of the commercial prosperity of the country.

As a key symbol of independence, the Irish Free State was determined to quickly diverge from the British fiscal space. Customs barriers were to follow

This weekend 100 years ago, on April 1 1923, a 'temporary frontier' on imported goods was placed on the boundary line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.

Joseph MacDonagh, dedicated Irish Republican and Sinn Féin TD died on Christmas Day 100 years ago after six years of tireless work for Ireland.

An extract from the book "Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland" by Cormac Moore.

It shows Free State soldiers searching a property on the eve of the Civil War in June 1922.

It shows Free State soldiers searching a property on the eve of the Civil War in June 1922.

A photograph of Free State soldiers on the eve of the Irish Civil War nearly a century ago is expected to fetch 800 euro at auction. The original black and whit...

A century ago in February 1922 the pogrom against Catholics, nationalists, republicans and anyone else seen as an enemy of Unionism was renewed in the new Orange Six-County state of ‘Northern Irela...

Ulster Bank: The crash did what the IRA never could Despite an openly Protestant, pro-Union ethos, Ulster Bank continued to operate its 61 branches successfully south of the newly imposed Border Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 12:05 Eoin Drea   Long before the partition of Ireland, before the violence of 20th century Anglo-Irish relations and before Irish banking became synonymous with f...