Prince Edward, the Duke of Kent laid a wreath at the Sigerson Memorial at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin on Wednesday.

Editors note: Barry Kennerk is an historian and freelance writer. His latest book is 'Moore Street - The Story of Dublin's Market District'. He remains a committed campaigner onbehalf of the market traders.

James Connolly Heron, the great-grandson of 1916 leader James Connolly, recently visited the historic properties on Moore Street, used as headquarters during the Easter Rising, and was disgusted with what he found. He found the building to look worse than before the protection order was issued in 2007.

Unionist Health Minister Edwin Poots has caused a storm of criticism after describing the 1916 Easter Rising as “a failed rising by subversives.’ Poots,a member of Ian Paisley’s party the Democratic Unionist Party holds one of the most important posts in the power sharing government with Sinn Fein.

Irish broadcaster Joe Duffy has published the first ever comprehensive list of children killed during the 1916 Easter Rising and is asking relatives of the victims to contact him as he wants to gather more information about their lives.

Joanna Brück of University College Dublin and Lisa Godson of the National College of Art and Design/GradCAM have organized the conference, Object Matters: Making 1916, which will take place at the Wood Quay venue in Dublin’s Civic Offices on 26 and 27 April.

Moore Street, the site of a 1916 Rising battlefield, may become a shopping mall in the future.

The letters of a mother in Dublin, writing to her son who was missing in action in the Balkans in 1916, have been published online.

Nearly a century has passed since Ireland’s monumental 1916 Easter Uprising took place on the streets of Dublin. Today, the city still bears many of the scars as a result of the fighting between the Irish and British.

The Asgard, a restored gun-running boat from the Easter Rising era, will be on display at Collins Barracks, Dublin as part of a permanent exhibition.

The 1916 Rising is online – with graphic eye witness accounts now available to the public for the first time.

On the eve of the 1916 Rising, Michael Mallin played the flute in the four-piece Workers’ Orchestra during a recital for the Irish Citizen Army in Dublin’s Liberty Hall. The next morning, Easter Monday, the planned rebellion began and Mallin commanded a garrison in St Stephen’s Green and, later, the College of Surgeons. As he prepared to lead out his men, Mallin, father to four young children and husband to a pregnant wife, turned to James O’Shea and, foreseeing his end, said: “We will be dead in a short time.”

Irish campaigners have called on the Irish state to halt the 'disrespectful' demolition of the area surrounding the historic 1916 Easter Rising battlefield site.

President Michael D Higgins and Prime Minister Enda Kenny have led the tributes to the men who led the fight for Irish freedom.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) have given the green light to a series of projects that include a new documentary feature about the Easter Rising.

The 28 children who died during the 1916 Rebellion should be remembered during the 100th centenary commemoration, according to an Irish historian.

The most comprehensive records of the 1916 Easter Rising have been released in a fully searchable structured index for the first time at www.findmypast.ie. "The Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook", which was published in the Irish Times in 1917, is now available on the site.