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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

R.F. Foster

THE removal of the mural on the Lee Fields (Irish Examiner, August 12) was an act of municipal vandalism. The painting over in green of a work of art is akin to the Taliban demolishing the Great Buddha in Afghanistan.

THERE’S downsizing and then there’s the kind of slaloming that sees Mrs Máire Mullarney trading down from a rambling old mansion to a one-bed apartment.