Good man, Thomas Clarke, for capturing this picture that shows a somewhat eccentric use of a local car wash.

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

With two and a half weeks of school holidays, Jonathan deBurca Butler suggests now is a great time to take a trip to Dublin where a plethora of 1916-inspired exhibitions and events are taking place

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.

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

Ned Daly always wanted to be a soldier so when the Irish Volunteers were founded he seized his chance, says Helen Litton

Literature, Gaelic games, and Irish classes were all activities in the early 1900s of the young nationalists who would later rally around the Rebellion, writes John Gibney.

Thomas Clarke was one of the architect’s of the Easter Rising, his nationalism hardened by 15

Cork actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers is to play political activist Pádraig Pearse in a film about the Easter Rising 1916.

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.

It was moving, solemn, and dignified.

Century-old secret police files released to the public for the first time reveal the efforts made to monitor suspected revolutionaries in the 11 months leading up to the 1916 Rising.

In 1979 I recall, as a young boy, being introduced by my grandparents to a friend who had an interest in CB radio and electronics.

Several French Resistance heroes (1939-45) will shortly be duly honoured as their remains are removed to the Pantheon in Paris.

ANTI-TREATY candidates received less than 22% of the first preference votes in the general election of June 1922.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it is providing consular assistance to the family of an Irish man feared to be the first fatality due to Hurricane Katia in the US.

A 33-YEAR-OLD Irishman is presumed dead after being swept out to sea by a “huge” Hurricane Katia wave as the storm hit the US before arriving in Ireland last night.

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A FORMER hotel manager has been awarded €100,000 after the Equality Tribunal ruled that she has been discriminated and victimised by her employer after becoming pregnant.

A FATHER told a court how his family will never forget New Year’s Eve 2008 as Padraig, his youngest of nine children, was killed in a “senseless accident”.

THE funeral takes place today of one of the two best friends killed early on Sunday morning in Co Limerick.

GARDAÍ in Nenagh have spoken to two women, a mother and daughter, who were involved in the sale of the Opel Corsa car in which three teenagers died on New Year’s Eve.

Three teenagers killed in a New Year’s Eve car crash will be buried today.

AS THE families of the teenagers who died in the New Year’s Eve crash near Nenagh prepare for today’s funerals, it was learned emergency services personnel found one of the teenagers trapped in the driver’s seat.

Three teenagers killed in a New Year’s Eve car crash were waked in their family homes today as separate funerals were planned for tomorrow.

Investigations continue today into the fatal crash in Co Tipperary which claimed the lives of three teenagers and left another two seriously injured.

THREE teenage boys died on New Year’s Eve in a horror car crash that has left two other teenagers fighting for their lives.

WITHIN hours of the horrific accident in Nenagh, social networking site bebo had hundreds of tributes to the three dead teenagers as well as offers of support to those who survived.

HOUSEHOLDERS were last night warned against burning rubbish outdoors after a pensioner died in a horrific accident.

THE tricolour used in the 1916 Easter Rising was sold yesterday to an anonymous bidder for €600,000.

THERE were fears yesterday that the original, hand-written words and music of Ireland's national anthem could leave the country after an auction in April with a guide price of €1.2 million.

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”

GOALKEEPER JJ Hartigan emerged the hero, saving two penalties in a tension-packed shootout, as Limerick and District League won the FAI Youths Inter-League final at Belfield Park yesterday.

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