A 1916 diary....NOT in the news (February 1-6, 1916)

More details of how key figures in the planning of the Rising, and those who would take part in it, spent this week 100 years ago.

MONDAY, JANUARY 31

JJ O’Connell was seen by Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) arriving back to the capital by train. He was probably returning from the training camp he had been running in Cork city for Irish Volunteers officers at the Volunteer Hall in Sheares Street.