More than 1,000 marched from Cork towns and villages on Easter Sunday 1916

Irish Volunteers were trailed around Cork by Royal Irish Constabulary on a miserably wet Easter Sunday 1916, writes Niall Murray

THE first men to mobilise in Cork were the 13 who left Cobh (then Queenstown) on Saturday afternoon, soon after hearing from local harbour pilots about a German ship being sunk in the outer reaches of Cork harbour.

They walked to the city and were followed on Saturday night by two colleagues on bicycles.