We look at the timeline of events during Easter Week in 1916.

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.

Ian Kenneally examines the role and response of the press in Ireland around the time of the Easter Rising

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

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

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.

One of the young men in Michael Collins’ assassination and counter-intelligence unit has become a voice from the grave in a new animated film telling the story of being a 14-year-old soldier in the Easter Rising.

Some aspects of this year’s 1916 centenary commemorations have come in for criticism, but this one certainly did not.

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.

An ongoing and chronological look back at 1916 and some of the behind the scenes planning of the Rising which was certainly "NOT in the news" of the time.

For the €25 or whatever Fergie is asking, you could learn about leadership this week from a man who has done it all and may never stop cashing in. Or you could have saved a few bob and pulled into a field in Ardcroney, six miles outside Nenagh.

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?

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.

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

AFTER completing my doctoral dissertation on Irish neutrality, Tim Pat Coogan, the then editor of The Irish Press, wrote that his newspaper would be interested in publishing a series of articles based on the papers of David Gray, the American wartime minister to Ireland, but he added his own health warning.

CHRIS CONWAY believes there is no reason why Thomas MacDonagh’s should be denied the chance to possibly compete in the Munster SFC when Cork champions UCC are allowed to do so.

A 49-year-old man has been shot dead in a gun attack on a halting site.

Brian Barton

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.

“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”