A group of 3rd, 4th and 5th class pupils from CBS Primary Mitchelstown in Cork have won the overall junior prize in the MindRising competition and a €5000 digital refresh for their school.

Joseph Plunkett’s grand-niece Honor Ó Brolcháin looks back on the life of the youngest Rebel leader to be executed

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

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.

On the eve of the 1916 anniversary, Claire O’Sullivan took her kids to Dublin to tour the city’s child-friendly museums.

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

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

Wolfe Tone’s fireplace is a feature of Fonsie Mealy’s Chatsworth spring fine art sale in Castlecomer .

ÉAMONN CEANNT is, in many ways, the ‘unknown’ man among the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, and the signatories to the proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Google is bringing 1916 to life by offering a virtual tour of the key sites, streets and events of the Rising.

The following 1916 buildings of National historic importance will be destroyed and lost forever should the NAMA Project Jewel auction of the 1916 Moore Street Battleground proceed.

WE HAVE two constitutional referenda to decide on May 22 and I’ll be voting yes and no says Gerard Howlin

The national conversation about 1916 is starting in earnest. What did it mean then; what does it say about us now?

From 1700 to the end of the First World War, almost 2m Irish men died fighting for British kings and queens, according to a new RTÉ documentary.

What I do: Actor/Singer

The celebrations are underway for the 90th anniversary of the Easter 1916 Rising.

The Fianna Fáil party can become the true heirs to the 1916 Rising, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said tonight.

DUBLIN City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter 1916 leader Padraig Pearse handed to a British army general after the Easter Rising.

Dublin City Council is to write to the British government calling for the return of a surrender letter rebel leader Padraig Pearse handed to an English general after the Easter Rising, it emerged tonight.

Dublin City Council will decide next week whether to save the last refuge of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders.

The last refuge of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising should be converted into an interpretative centre before it becomes a ruin, it was claimed tonight.

“WE place the cause of the Irish Republic under the protection of the Most High God whose blessing we invoke upon our arms, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by cowardice, inhumanity or rapine”

IRISHMEN and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.

An Taisce today joined a fight to protect the building known as “Ireland’s Alamo”.