Michael D Higgins has led commemorations marking the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.

A new headstone has been unveiled today to mark the grave of one of the children who died during the 1916 Rising.

More than a century on, a headstone will be placed on Friday on the previously unmarked grave of one of the 40 children killed during the 1916 Rising.

Thomas Walsh of the Irish Citizen Army will be remembered at a ceremony in his native city next weekend, writes Niall Murray

The Government has invited the public to tell them how they would like major historic events to be commemorated.

The centenary of the Easter Rising leader Thomas Ashe’s death will be marked with a State commemoration in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery next Friday.

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork has said some members of his community anticipate commemorations of the War of Independence and the Civil War ‘fearfully and with a certain dread.’, writes Grainne McGuinness

The most comprehensive treatment of Ireland’s revolutionary years has been published today by Cork University Press.

Members of the Capuchin order had key roles in the Irish revolution, writes Niall Murray

A new history project is the first to attempt to identify and detail every individual killed in County Cork during the Irish War of Independence, writes Professor Emeritus James S. Donnelly, Jr.

The first comprehensive detailing of 528 people killed in Cork during the War of Independence shines a light beyond the better-known deaths of IRA fighters and British Crown Forces.

University College Cork and the Irish Examiner have unveiled a major new digital project which attempts to identify every individual killed in County Cork during the Irish War of Independence.

The FBI says at any one time there are 750,000 child sex predators online. Martha Mendoza and Jim Gomez meet one who may face justice

LATEST: President Michael D Higgins today laid a wreath at the focal point of the Easter Rising as the nation marked the 101st anniversary of the rebellion.

More than €7.5m was spent by the government on events commemorating the 1916 Rising.

Today will see the final event of the 1916 centenary celebrations.

He survived a gunshot wound to the head after the raid on the Custom House.

As the centenary of the 1916 Rising draws to a close, it is important to acknowledge that the apprehension that preceded the year’s flag-waving and cheers has proved unfounded.

The incredible stories of Frank Burke and Tilly Simpson.

A portion of the tri-colour, which was flown at Jacob's factory in Dublin during the Easter Rising, has been presented by a Jersey family to Glasnevin Museum.

Football’s world governing body has confirmed it has begun disciplinary action against the Republic of Ireland over a 1916 commemorative jersey worn in a friendly game last March.

FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Football Association of Ireland over a symbol worn on the team's shirts in a March friendly which related to Easter Rising.

A new 90-minute documentary will tell the complete story of the Irish Revolution for the first time in colour.

Irish patriot Kevin Barry was eighteen years old when he was executed on November 1st 1920 for his part in an IRA ambush which killed three young British soldiers aged fifteen, nineteen and twenty. In a controversial new play former IRA volunteer Shane Paul O'Doherty tells his version of the story of Kevin's arrest, imprisonment and execution. Writing here he explains what motivated him to write the play.

Thomas Kent was the only 1916 revolutionary to be executed outside Dublin. Historian Meda Ryan tells how one family in the South made a stand for land and freedom

Deaths of 78 people accused of being British spies have been documented by researchers, writes Nicola Stathers

The archaeological and forensic detective work used to locate and identify the remains of executed 1916 rebel Thomas Kent’s remains will be explained in Cork this week.

Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has laid a wreath in memory of more than 100 British soldiers killed trying to suppress the Easter Rising.

The installation of a large electronic pay meter in front of a monument to 1916 leader Thomas Kent has been branded “an affront to his memory”.

The Taoiseach heads for Washington today for a series of events marking the 1916 Centenary.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will travel to the US today for a series of high-profile 1916 commemoration events designed to place fresh focus on how the Easter Rising affected Irish people on the other side of the Atlantic.

Luke Murphy’s new dance piece explores issues around the independence struggle, says Jo Kerrigan

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The 'Timeline 1916 exhibition' and the film 'GPO 1916, Eyewitnesses to History' will run until May 20 at Cork City Hall.

Reports containing details of 30,000 arrests by the Dublin Metropolitan Police more than 100 years ago have been published online writes Dan Buckley.

As a piper played a lament, sheets of rain shrouded the tears of relatives yesterday in the yard of the Old Cork Prison where the 1916 rebel Thomas Kent was executed 100 years ago.

The composer of Ireland's national anthem is to be remembered in a free public lecture at UCC tomorrow evening. 

Four of the executed leaders of the Easter Rising have been remembered at separate ceremonies in Dublin today.

The last farthing in Irish Volunteers chief of staff Eoin MacNeill’s pocket when he was imprisoned after the Rising could be lying in a British Army grave in France.

On the 100th anniversary of Patrick Pearse’s surrender — on the last Saturday of April 1916 — a never-published letter reveals how Irish men in different uniforms found they had a lot in common, writes Niall Murray

A monument to be erected next month honouring Thomas Kent will feature a code which can be scanned by smartphone to provide access to a website dedicated to information about the patriot and the 1916 Rising.