Submarine inventor John Phillip Holland tested one of his first prototypes in a North Mon pond, writes Ailín Quinlan

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.

Tommy Barker on a country home that has engrossing tales to tell of changing political times and family ties.

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

A founder actress  of the Abbey Theatre, Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh spent Easter 1916 in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory with Tom MacDonagh, writes her grandnephew Dave Kenny

A key figure before the Rising, Thomas Hunter is hardly known outside his native north Cork, reports Niall Murray

A hundred years to the day that Patrick Pearse stepped on to O’Connell Street and proclaimed an Irish Republic, the GAA will hold its extravagant commemoration of the most seminal moment in modern Irish history. 

A small printing press in the home of Joseph Plunkett was responsible for one of the most controversial documents in Irish history.

It was not by chance that Pádraig Pearse was the first rebel court-martialled and killed, writes Ruán O’Donnell

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.

Carlowman Miceál Ua hAnnracáin was certain only armed rebellion would see the British Empire leave, writes Conor Kostick

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the main players behind the Rising, based largely on observations of their movements by police.

AFTER Macroom, the biggest numbers to mobilise in Cork on Easter Sunday gathered at Bweeng, between Blarney and Mallow.

The spirit of 1798 was the inspiration for the Rising in Enniscorthy, which, despite the lack of arms proved to be one of the more remarkable episodes of the week, writes Conor McNamara

Despite being cleared of any dereliction of duty, the failure of the Cork Brigade to take part in the rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, writes Gerry White

Sinéad Callanan, a student of Castletroy College in Limerick, was a prizewinner in the all-island Decade of Centenaries schools essay competition for this study of Na Fianna Éireann

Fenit Harbour in Kerry was deemed the best place to land guns from the German ships, and it was decided that the rail network would be the best means of distribution of the weapons in the South-west, says Niall Murray

A Cumann na mBan courier was involved in a daring but unsuccessful attempt to deliver a key message to the local Irish Volunteers command on Easter weekend, writes Niall Murray

As commander of the Cork Brigade, Tomás MacCurtain was responsible for the success of his mission. But he had been receiving conflicting orders from the Irish Volunteer HQ in Dublin, writes Gerry White

SEÁN O’Hegarty had charge of 30 Volunteers who marched from different directions to Kealkill, where the plan had been to take control of the local Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) barracks.

John Borgonovo explores the political landscape in Cork in the years preceding the 1916 Rising

The tactics used by the Fingal battalion foreshadowed those used in the War of Independence, writes Paul Maguire

The Mind, Body, Spirit and Yoga Festival in the RDS runs this weekend and offers the chance to discover the latest techniques in self-development and life-enhancing positive psychology with 75 talks by top Irish and international experts. 

Seán MacDiarmada overcame polio to produce a masterplan for the 1916 Rising , writes historian Brian Feeney

How this week 100 years ago was spent by the men and women behind the Rising

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.”

John A Murphy suggests there is far less to the Proclamation of the Republic than is often

Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.

Like many other prisoners after the Rising, Diarmuid Lynch had to have correspondence to family and loved ones smuggled out of prisons and military barracks.

Details of what was being done this week 100 years ago by those planning the Rising, and how it was observed by British authorities in Ireland.

Ned Daly always wanted to be a soldier so when the Irish Volunteers were founded he seized his chance, says Helen Litton

We still underestimate the crucial role played by veteran Fenians in the United States including O’Donovan Rossa and, in particular, John Devoy, writes Terry Golway