A lament to Thomas Kent, the displaying of an anchor from gun-running ship SS Aud, and re-enactments of marching Volunteers are among more than 300 events and projects being planned in Cork for next year’s 1916 centenary commemorations.

An exhumation will take place shortly in the grounds of Cork Prison in the hope of discovering and identifying the remains of War of Independence volunteer Thomas Kent.

The life and death of Fenian Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa will be marked in his native West Cork this summer, a century after his Dublin funeral proved a rallying cry for the 1916 Rising.

Plans on how to mark Cork’s role in the 1916 Rising and War of Independence are to be proposed at two public meetings in the next few weeks.

A 6,000-year-old home built in the Ballincollig area features in a 200-page book on Heritage Houses of County Cork which could make an interesting Christmas stocking-filler.

Cork County Council is embarking on a major tourism plan in the Muscraí Gaeltacht.