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

Several events in Ireland will mark the centenary of the formation of the Irish Volunteers, a military force that participated in some of Ireland’s most critical moments.

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.

A former IRA commander has said the dissident republicans will make a “big show” by plotting gun or bomb attacks in Britain during the celebrations of the centenary of the Easter Rising.

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.

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.

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.

They are a part of the history of the Irish nation. Their relatives signed the Proclamation of the Republic and led the Easter Rising in 1916. And, these descendants of the executed leaders of the Provisional Government today are leading a different movement, one which seeks to preserve and protect the last battlefield of 1916 from the commercial interests and crass development which threatens to destroy the National Monument, which is Moore Street.

Police in Northern Ireland have arrested six people following the announcement made by a masked member of the Real IRA ,at a 1916 Easter Rising commemoration ceremony at Creggan cemetery, in Derry.

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 leaders of Ireland’s 1916 Rising against British rule have been turfed out of one of the country’s top golf clubs – in a fund raising move.