The husband of Caitríona Lucas has said it is “a great honour” that one of her paintings has been featured on two new stamps issued in recognition of the Irish Coast Guard.

James Ryan squirms at the idea that he might be recognised on civvy street these days.

Respecting everyone’s human rights means defending a person’s right to hold views even if we don’t agree with them, writes Colm O’Gorman

A museum in Dublin has won a prize for innovation.

A senior garda officer has denied ever saying that garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe watched young girls at a school.

One of the big highlights for day four of the Cork International Choral Festival is The Big Sing, where everyone gets the chance to take to the stage. Check out some of Saturday's highlights here. 

Protestors see the future of the post office inextricably linked to a way of life in rural Ireland, rather than a means to make money, writes Michael Clifford.

I think if I tore up the proclamation 30 years ago I could have wound up getting shot.”

DA VINCI DRAWINGS

We look at the timeline of events during Easter Week in 1916.

RISING MEMORABILIA

What was not highlighted in the story of 1916 was the strong vibrant faith of the Irish volunteers. 

Hundreds of people queued outside the Central Bank in Dublin’s Dame St yesterday to be among the first to acquire specially minted commemorative 1916 coins.

Nothing illustrates how selective we can be on the question of 1916 than the following story which is, apparently, quite true.

Kya deLongchamps is hugely stimulated by a new book by William Derham on the lost architectural heritage of Ireland, and the indifference, and in come cases, downright malice, that caused wanton destruction. 

Teagasc in partnership with Galway County Council will stage Farming and Country Life 1916, Ireland’s largest rural 1916 commemorative.

Thousands turn out to acknowledge role played by ordinary people in pivotal time in the State’s history

A cast iron toffee axe — normally used to break up large slabs of toffee in confectioner shops — became a weapon in the hands of a looter in O’Connell St.

A judge has granted declarations that various buildings and locations on and around Dublin’s Moore St comprise a 1916 Rising “battlefield site” comprising a national monument.

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once said that “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr said that “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

When Eleanor Burke eventually asked her grandmother why she never spoke about her membership of Cumann na mBan in Kerry, Ellie Rice replied: “We learned not to speak or say anything because one idle word during that period could cause somebody’s death.”

This cricket bat was on display in the front window of Elvery’s when it became an early casualty of the violence that erupted in Dublin’s Sackville St, now O’Connell St, on Easter Monday, 1916.

A revisionist view of the 1916 Rising in the South during the northern Troubles has given way to a more even tempered position, but will this remain, asks Gabriel Doherty

For the British, the importance of the successful defence of Trinity College during the rebellion can not be underestimated, writes assistant librarian at TCD, Ellen O’Flaherty

No one, not the IRA, not Sinn Féin, not Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael, nor any party or organisation, owns or has a monopoly on the Rising or its legacy, writes Danny Morrison.

A 53-year-old woman whose life revolved around her post office job at Limerick GPO was jailed yesterday for 18 months for stealing from customer accounts after she did not get a promotion.

Roz Crowley meets Pierre Lawton, a globally acclaimed wine merchant, whose long line of Cork ancestors includes a mayor

A “trusted” An Post worker pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing over €100,000 in funds from account holders, before putting the money back into their accounts.

Abortion activists held a demonstration in Dublin against the prosecution of a woman in Northern Ireland for procuring her daughter with abortion pills.

Yesterday’s Eircode launch saw a protest by a group that claims 50,000 Irish language addresses are either incomplete or have been entirely omitted from the new postcode database.

Our efforts to understand the 1916 Rising and its leaders should focus on their expectations of what would happen and not just what transpired, according to one of the country’s leading historians.

UCD professor of modern history, Ronan Fanning called for a “shameless celebration” of the Easter Rising centenary. 1916 relatives would, at this late stage, settle for a mere celebration.

Shannon Heritage has been appointed by An Post to operate and manage the GPO Witness History Interpretive Exhibition Centre in Dublin.

It is now "extremely unlikely" that a British royal will be at next year's commemoration of the 1916 Rising.