Children central to events to mark 100 years since Easter Rising

Several of the leaders like Pearse, McDonagh and Plunkett don’t fit ‘real man’ persona

Installation focuses on women of Rising and corporate Ireland greed 100 years later

Éamonn Ceannt and Grace Plunkett wrote to governor of Kilmainham Gaol after Rising

‘Tom Kettle was a truly great Irishman of whom we should all be immensely proud’

Time has come for an ethics of narrative hospitality to replace our past entrenchments

Kevin Vickers involved in arrest of man during event to remember British dead

First three killed, Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh, commemorated on centenary

Tipperary community unveils life-size statue of Rising leader and poet executed in 1916

Concerned evidence would suggest appeal

A special commission for the centenary of the 1916 Rising

The Sackville Street Art Project has brought together people to build model houses for each of the civilians killed during fighting

During the Rising, 15 ambulances were provided as were female nurses and men to staff the hospitals

Relatives of executed leader Major John MacBride meet for the first time

Today's Irish Times newspaper is a souvenir edition of a 1916 paper that reported the Rising in microscopic detail – and carried some curious advertisements

The new Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising exhibition at Collins Barracks

Proclamation Day gives students the opportunity to reflect on and reimagine what it means to be Irish in 2016

The youngest of the Proclamation signatories married his fiancee, Grace Gifford, in his prison cell the night before he was executed

The republican leader’s experimental Dublin school struggled with debt – and with irate neighbours

Thomas MacDonagh worried about his family not having enough money, during his life and after his death, letters held by the National Library suggest

National Library collection includes photo of Éamon de Valera marching men to captivity

RTÉ releases 50 audio and visual recordings from its archives for 1916 centenary

1916/2016: a miscellany

President Michael D Higgins praises collection of 245 interviews given to the Republic

1916/2016: a miscellany

Thomas J Clarke, whose name appeared first among those of the signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, was an unbending Fenian – and a mordant, impish wit

‘Well, Lillie, hasn’t it been a full life and isn’t this a good end?’ the signatory to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic told his wife just before he was executed, in 1916

Long a Gaelic revivalist, Pearse was a latecomer to politics and gunfire, his unfortunate brother an even later one

In the summer of 1915, the military leadership of the Irish Republican Brotherhood started to draw up plans for a rising against British rule

Gerald Dawe discusses some of the background to his new book, Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing

Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald explores the cultural legacy of the Easter Rising in the work of the rebels themselves and fellow poets Yeats, AE, James Stephens and Francis Ledwidge

Radicalised by the Famine, his funeral became a propaganda coup for the movement

‘Mr P Pearse delivered a panegyric. He said that he spoke on behalf of a new generation’

Fenian leader’s ceremony was attempt to stir national consciousness, conference hears

Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) obsessively monitored future rebels

Event will give global context to 1916 as part of university’s centenary commemorations

‘It’s not all about money or funding: it’s about honesty, courage, planning, vision and political will’

In a second, edited extract from his book Vivid Faces, historian Roy Foster considers the role of theatre in shaping the minds of the revolutionary generation

The journal of a British soldier who commanded the firing squads that executed Pádraig Pearse,Thomas MacDonagh and Tom Clarke has been published in a new book

Archive letter tells how British sergeant major noted the order in which 1916 commanders were buried