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

1,000 Irish Volunteers answered the call and turned out across Co Cork on Easter Sunday, writes Niall Murray

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.

In this the year of the 100th anniversary of The Easter Rising it’s still amazing what some simple genealogical research can reveal about a 1916 executed leader