I cannot answer Tony Moriarty’s question about whether he needs an eye test or not (May 2) but I can assure him that the correct state representatives were present at the recent commemoration for members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police killed during the Easter Rising.

Family members of nearly 50,000 men and women who took part in the 1916 Rising or War of Independence can access files relating to their service for the first time.

Since 1898, Dublin Fire Brigade ran the ambulance service and the emergence of the log book of the brigade’s headquarters in Tara Street from 1916 bears witness to the efforts to deal with the battle waging on the streets and the people affected, writes Las Fallon

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

The State’s 100th anniversary commemoration of the 1916 Rising takes place at the graveside of the 14 executed insurrection leaders at Arbour Hill, Dublin, tomorrow.

British army records relating to the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence have been opened to the world in one of the most ambitious online projects for family researchers and historians.

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

As the date of the Rising rapidly approached, this is what was happening behind the scenes 100 years ago this week

President Michael D Higgins says the Republic that the 1916 rebels dreamed of “remains unfulfilled”.

Michael Mallin’s letter on the eve of his execution offers a moving insight into his mindset, writes Brian Hughes

IRISH exiles in the US knew about the Easter Rising before the news reached most of their relatives back home, writes Ray Ryan.

Siptu will host a programme of cultural events to commemorate the 1916 Rising and the role that its headquarters Liberty Hall played in it.

Easter Saturday, 1916.

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

IF THE August 1915 funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa was a portent of the Irish Volunteers’ military strength, British authorities were given an even clearer picture just five weeks before the Easter Rising began.

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.”

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.

Pension details released by the military archives shows women played a wider role in the Rising than previously thought, says Sinead McCoole

A new exhibition in Dublin highlights the key events and locations of 1916 as caught on camera.

Thomas Clarke was one of the architect’s of the Easter Rising, his nationalism hardened by 15

An ongoing and chronological look back at 1916 and some of the behind the scenes planning of the Rising which was certainly "NOT in the news" of the time.

Siptu is to fully drape three sides of the landmark 60m-tall Liberty Hall with images from 1916 to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising.

The last surviving child of those executed during the 1916 rising has celebrated his 102nd birthday.

The funeral of Fenian patriot Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa in August 1915 will be remembered a century later in Dublin tomorrow in the first State ceremonial event of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme.

The Tricolour said to have flown over Dublin during the 1916 Rising failed to sell at auction despite bids reaching €24,000.

All events between 1912 and 1916 that led to the creation of modern Ireland are being commemorated, according to the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys.

Hopes of renaming Dublin’s Millennium Spire after Nelson Mandela have been dashed after councillors unanimously rejected the idea.

Unknown heroes of the Irish Volunteers have been identified in graves in Glasnevin cemetery as part of a new commemoration.

Highlights include the return of Ear To The Ground, and Áine Lawlor's tale of her battle with breast cancer.

The array at Whyte’s auction of history, literature and collectibles in Dublin next Saturday (Sep 14) ranges from comic books, to memories of the Great Famine and the 1913 Lockout, to sporting memorabilia.

It would appear despite the massive cuts, the Fine Gael/Labour Government have imposed in health, education and social welfare in order to repay the bondholders, they intend to find the money to send Irish troops to war-torn Mali.

Experience has always been, and remains, one of the very best teachers.

First-hand accounts of the Easter Rising and the War of Independence are among important historical documents being made widely available to the public for the first time in almost half a century.

The Plough and the Stars, set around the Easter Rising, is the story of one woman’s efforts to preserve her family, says Carl Dixon

Police held back noisy demonstrators as the Queen took part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin city centre this afternoon.

IN a recent letter regarding the Dripsey ambush (Irish Examiner, July 22), Brendan Cafferty links the names of Mrs Lindsay and Fr Shinnick as people who decided to stop an ambush. And he questions why only Mrs Lindsay (a Protestant) was shot.

Ireland’s largest trade union is to help fund a film about one of the rebels executed following the uprising against British rule in 1916, it announced today.