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.

In the theatre of war of the turbulent years from 1919 to 1921, Cork was the main act, writes John Borgonovo

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.

Church bells are set to ring out in honour of legendary GAA figure Sam Maguire thanks to the Church of Ireland parish in West Cork where he is buried.

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

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

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

Seán Hurley, from Drinagh, was Michael Collins’ brother-in-law and they were also good friends while working in the civil service in London. Hurley then got a job in the fabled Harrods store before he was called back to Dublin, alongside Collins, writes Ray Ryan

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

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

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.

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

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

Leaving the Church behind him, Thomas MacDonagh found a new calling almost by accident, writes Shane Kenna

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

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

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.

Condemnation would have handed the British a propaganda weapon against Irish nationalists, and, in any case, the leaders were personally known to the clergy, says Dermot Keogh

The Irishman was a major figure in the Second Boer War, and one of the 16 men executed after the 1916 Rising, writes Donal Fallon

Some stories and notices in the Cork Examiner this week 100 years ago

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

Literature, Gaelic games, and Irish classes were all activities in the early 1900s of the young nationalists who would later rally around the Rebellion, writes John Gibney.

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

Cork County Council will host the largest number of events planned anywhere in the country to commemorate next year’s centenary of the 1916 Rising.

It was little surprise that Sinn Féin, as part of its determined effort to highjack the 1916 commemoration, held its own August 1 event at the Glasnevin grave of Jeremiah O’ Donovan Rossa.

It was moving, solemn, and dignified.

It’s a photograph that may have been seen by millions over the last 100 years – but how many people other than Pádraig Pearse did they all recognise?

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.

A €1.3m museum, dedicated to Michael Collins and two other West Cork patriots, is to open in Clonakilty at the end of June.

The drafting and printing of the Proclamation of Independence, along with violence outside Dublin and the ‘quiet heroes’ of the Rising, are among aspects of Easter 1916 to be marked in a major centenary exhibition at the National Museum next year.