Remembering the 1916 Rising in the regions around the country

As the nation prepares to remember the momentous historic events in Dublin over six days following Easter 1916, it is important that we should not forget those that also occurred around the country during the same pivotal period.

For while the violence was mostly restricted to the capital, thousands of members of Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan and other organisations frustratingly awaited orders to take up arms, as news of the Rising reached the provinces.

In this Rising in the Regions supplement, we tell some of their stories, including those of the bloodshed that occurred in counties Meath, north Dublin and Galway where Volunteers and police faced each other.