Perhaps because it can often coincide with Easter observances — both inside and outside churches — the significance of today’s date in Ireland’s story tends to ring few, if any, bells in minds other than those of historians.

A much sought after original of the Irish Proclamation of the Irish Republic is to go under the auction hammer next month.

Medals recognising the role played by the fire and rescue services during the Easter Rising will be handed out to crews who served across Ireland in the rebellion's centenary year.

Petrol bombs were hurled at police during a republican parade in Derry.

Six men have been charged over an illegal Easter parade in Co Armagh.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 had a more profound impact on the course of Irish history than the Easter Rising, writes Ryle Dwyer

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.

The owner of Patrick Pearse's handwritten surrender letter has accused the Government of apathy over the unique 1916 artefact after it was taken out of the country.

After suffering three days of ‘inhuman, dangerous and barbaric’ treatment, Easter Rising hero Thomas Ashe died in hospital, 100 years ago today, says Robert Hume.

Easter Rising leader Thomas Ashe was described yesterday as “a man ahead of his time” by two young pupils from the school where he once taught.

The President has laid a wreath at the focal point of the Easter Rising as the nation marked the 101st anniversary of the rebellion.

A ceremony to mark the 101st anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will take place outside the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin today.

The legacy of Eoin Mac Neill, the prominent Gaelic revivalist who famously tried to call off the Easter Rising, has been commemorated at his old school in Belfast.

Ballyphehane closed out their 1916 centenary celebrations today with music, dance and reenactments at the local community centre.

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.

One of the most touching moments of the past year’s commemorations happened 100 years to the minute after the first fatality in the Easter 1916 Rising.

It may have taken years to reconstruct after the Easter Rising, but a Lego enthusiast took 24 months and used 50,000 pieces to recreate Dublin’s main 1916 battleground.

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”.

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

A ceremony has taken place in Dublin to mark 100 years since the death of James Connolly.

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

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

It has been 100 years today since the first leaders of the Easter Rising were executed.

Recorded in a copybook is a telling account of the Rising and the rebels’ principles, writes Jane Maxwell

The arrests and internment without trial of hundreds of Irish men in May 1916, together with the leaders’ executions, saw the public mood swiftly change after the Rising. Niall Murray examines a family archive of papers and photographs that shows the effects of these arrests

They marched in their hundreds, retracing the footsteps of the volunteers who took to the roads of Co Cork on Easter Sunday 1916.

The last words of Padraig Pearse should be a challenge to every generation, according to one of the country’s most senior clergymen.

Joseph Plunkett’s grand-niece Honor Ó Brolcháin looks back on the life of the youngest Rebel leader to be executed

Yesterday, 100 years ago, a young woman named Nora Costigan got caught up in the Rising. Niall Murray introduces her remarkable account of that week

Tributes were paid to more than 1,000 Irish Volunteers who marched in Co Cork on Easter Sunday 1916 as weekend events marked the centenary of their long marches around the county

A full State commemoration for Roger Casement was led by President Michael D Higgins at Banna Strand near Tralee yesterday.

The struggle for the birth of a child is the work of love while armed struggle for the birth of a nation state is the work of hate, writes Victoria White

The naval ship LÉ Aisling is in the bay, the Irish army will be on manoeuvres, and the strains of ‘Lonely Banna Strand’ are ringing out across Tralee Bay in one of the biggest State commemorations outside of Dublin of events associated with 1916.

WHEN you’re a scriptwriter whose latest TV series is an irreverent take on the 1916 Rising, it throws you a little when you meet your director for the first time and realise he’s a descendant of one of the most celebrated fighters to die at the GPO.

The people who took part in the 1916 Easter Rising have been remembered in many different ways over the last few months.

Campaigners have called on the Government not to try to overturn a judge's ruling which expanded the Moore Street national monument site.

This is how the men and women who would be involved in the looming rebellion spent this week 100 years ago — some deeply involved in its planning, others still oblivious.