Seven sites pay solemn homage to men, women, and children of 1916

Standing solemnly at the same site and same time as the first shot rang out on Easter Monday 1916, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan stooped to carefully place a wreath beside Dublin’s City Hall.

In the shadow of Dublin Castle, which for so long had been the headquarters of British rule in Ireland, the minister and Rising relatives stood side by side at 1.15pm as they observed a minute’s silence in honour of those who died.

Relatives of former mayor of Cork Tomás Mc Curtain