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

Des O’Sullivan reports on the wealth of 1916 memorabilia coming up for auction prior to the centenary.

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.

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?

On the 50th anniversary of the death of Piaras Beaslaí, Ryle Dwyer assesses how his biography of Michael Collins sparked a slew of rumours about the Big Fellow.

R.F. Foster

A first edition of novel At Swim Two Birds and a copy of the ‘Irish Proclamation’ are among the lots.

A former soldier played a dangerous game by turning on Michael Collins during the War of Independence, writes Ryle Dwyer

NEXT week marks 90 years since the election of the first Irish woman to parliament — Countess Constance Markievicz.

THE Irish Examiner is to be congratulated on the amount of space it has given in its letter columns to the debate on Niamh Sammon’s Hidden History programme on RTÉ on the killings at Coolacrease.