ONE of the more obscure incidents of the Easter Rising took place near Galbally on the Tipperary/Limerick border.

A sample of what made the pages of the Cork Examiner this week 100 years ago.

Things have changed a lot at St Angela’s College, Cork, since one of its teachers was arrested for her ties to the Easter Rising.

It was not by chance that Pádraig Pearse was the first rebel court-martialled and killed, writes Ruán O’Donnell

A flavour of what was in the Cork Examiner this week 100 years ago

Carlowman Miceál Ua hAnnracáin was certain only armed rebellion would see the British Empire leave, writes Conor Kostick

What if Pearse and Connolly had survived? Perhaps the first item on the agenda would have been a split, writes Gerard Howlin

Arguably fewer cars troubled Cork this Easter Monday than was the case 100 years ago, as the city centre was taken over by pedestrians for the city’s state commemoration of the 1916 Rising.

The Wishing Trees of St Stephens Green would give anthropologists a field day. One was elegantly decorated with dangling cards neatly printed with lines from the Proclamation of Easter 1916, each one a wish, an ambition, or a dream for the future Ireland.

Why is it necessary for the centrepiece of the 1916 celebrations to be such a military occasion? asks Fergus Finlay

Events to mark the centenary of the only Cork man killed during the Easter Rising will also remember his fiancée after fate brought descendants of both into contact this week.

We shouldn’t ignore the rich history of other eras that surrounds us at the expense of

Some of the events taking place across Cork to commemorate the centenary of the Rising include:

Paul Maguire on the spectacular success of the fifth battalion of the Dublin Brigade against a large Royal Irish Constabulary force in Ashbourne, Co Meath

AFTER Macroom, the biggest numbers to mobilise in Cork on Easter Sunday gathered at Bweeng, between Blarney and Mallow.

Anti-Treaty leader’s personal steel was cloaked by his inoffensive character, writes Conor McNamara

With no radio, the ship’s captain had no way of knowing he was in Tralee Bay three days earlier than expected, writes Ryle Dwyer

Despite being cleared of any dereliction of duty, the failure of the Cork Brigade to take part in the rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, writes Gerry White

OF THE companies that marched to Mount Leader outside Millstreet, Rathduane was the largest; all its 29 members at Easter 1916 turned out.

A lack of German support, despite the arms shipment, led Roger Casement to try to warn Volunteer leaders to abandon the Rising, but his message arrived too late, writes Ryle Dwyer

As the nation prepares to remember the momentous historic events in Dublin over six days following Easter 1916, it is important that we should not forget those that also occurred around the country during the same pivotal period.

John Borgonovo explores the political landscape in Cork in the years preceding the 1916 Rising

Irish Volunteers were trailed around Cork by Royal Irish Constabulary on a miserably wet Easter Sunday 1916, writes Niall Murray

From the pages of the Cork Examiner, this week 100 years ago

Seán MacDiarmada overcame polio to produce a masterplan for the 1916 Rising , writes historian Brian Feeney

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

This single sheet of notepaper gives a vivid impression of the atmosphere in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.

These are the colours Cork will wear when they face Kilkenny at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday night.

When Eleanor Burke eventually asked her grandmother why she never spoke about her membership of Cumann na mBan in Kerry, Ellie Rice replied: “We learned not to speak or say anything because one idle word during that period could cause somebody’s death.”

Captain Bowen Colthurst’s home Oakgrove, near Carrigadrohid, Co Cork, was burnt down by the IRA in June 1920, mainly in response to fears it was to be occupied by British military amid heightening War of Independence violence locally.

Until 1916, this half brick formed part of the wall at Portobello Barracks, now Cathal Brugha Barracks, in Rathmines.

We still underestimate the crucial role played by veteran Fenians in the United States including O’Donovan Rossa and, in particular, John Devoy, writes Terry Golway

This cricket bat was on display in the front window of Elvery’s when it became an early casualty of the violence that erupted in Dublin’s Sackville St, now O’Connell St, on Easter Monday, 1916.

Politics at the start of 1916 in Cork City and county was overshadowed by events in Europe and the Middle East.