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A paramilitary colour party marches down O’Connell Street as part of the Republican Sinn Féin 1916 parade, opposite the GPO, April 23rd, 2016. Dissident republicans mark 1916 Rising outside GPO

Event led by colour parties with men in paramilitary garb and marching bands

A soldier’s life: a volley is fired over Edwward Keegan’s grave at his funeral, in 1938. Photograph: family collection The 1916 Volunteer and ‘The Irish Times’

This newspaper dismissed Edward Keegan when he left his desk to fight in the Easter Rising. Now, to honour him, it has bought his 1916 medal to put on permanent display

Easter 1916: part of David Rooney’s illustration of Edward Daly The 1916 Rising as you have never seen it before

Artist David Rooney explains the poster published with this weekend’s ‘Irish Times’

Croke Park during the performance of ‘Aiséirí’, a pageant commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, on April 24th 1966. Photograph: RTÉ Stills Library GAA’s role in 1916 Rising: Separating fact from fiction

Aligning association with separatist tradition jars with a more complex historical reality

An electric tram in Dún Laoghaire circa 1906. Around the time of the Rising, the trams in Dublin operated on lines that ran 95.6km – 60km more than we have now. Photograph: Past Pix/SSPL/Getty Images Rising prices: the high cost of living in 1916 Ireland

A recently published CSO survey paints a vivid picture of the cost of living in the country a century ago. Overall, today’s consumers have it much better than those of yesteryear

Lt Gerald Neilan of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers Brothers in arms – An Irishman’s Diary on the Neilan brothers and the 1916 Rising

Gerald Neilan was the first British officer to die in the Easter Rising

John Loder (second right) and Arthur Shields (right) in the John Ford film ‘How Green Was My Valley’. Photograph: Fox The Hollywood hit that hid secrets of the Easter Rising

‘How Green was My Valley’ was the famous 1951 film that won five Oscars for John Ford: but it also contained a more fascinating story of how two of its actors had fought on opposite sides of the Rising

Easter Rising, Enniscorthy 1916: writing about a revolution

Three writers remember three women – George O’Brien his grandaunt Greta Comerford, Roddy Doyle his grandaunt Una Brennan and Colm Tóibín his neighbour Marion Stokes

Fighting for his life: The Trial of Roger Casement, 1916, painted by John Lavery. Photograph:  Crown copyright/ UK Government art collection/Courtesy Royal Irish Academy Bernard Shaw to Roger Casement: put on the performance of your life

As Casement faced trial for treason in 1916, Shaw wrote a speech that he was convinced could turn the trial into a national drama, and save Casement from the scaffold

View of the crowd gathered outside the ruins of the GPO in April 1916. Photograph: Getty Images 1916 for outsiders: Everything you have ever wanted to know

Is this like your Fourth of July, or Bastille Day? Did the rebels really think they could win?

 President Éamon de Valera speaks  at the Garden of Rememberance on Easter Sunday 1966 during an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rising Remembering the Rising: how they did it in 1966

The golden jubilee commemorations were dominated by veterans, the Catholic Church was prominent and some guests were locked out

Sonia Redmond, Sarah McConnell and Daniel Stewart 1916 and Me: A teenager’s rap about the Rising

The Irish Times’s ‘1916 and Me’ project invited readers to share their feelings about the Easter Rising. Here is a selection from students at primary, secondary and third level

The front page of the Weekly Irish Times published just after the Easter Rising The Irish Times in 1916: a newspaper in focus

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

Lt-General John Maxwell and his entourage inspect British troops after the Rising. Maxwell did not like ordering 1916 executions, says great grandson

Negative impact of executions created great public rising, says great grandson

A cross which marks the place where James Connolly was executed, sitting in a chair, in the stonebreakers yard in Kilmainham Gaol yesterday. The other thirteen leaders of the rising were shot against the opposite wall. Photograph: Frank Miller Easter Rising 1916 – the aftermath: arrests and executions

After a chaotic week, British commander Maxwell proceeds, against advice, with executions. Confusion over who is to die causes upset, and some sentences are meted out arbitrarily

Soldiers inspect the interior of Dublin's General Post Office, viewing the complete destruction of the building after being shelled by the British during the Easter Rising 1916.   (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Easter Rising – Day 6: And then it was all over

On the last day of the 1916 Rising, the rebels are forced to surrender unconditionally and brought to Richmond Barracks, where the leaders are identified

Easter Rising – Day 5: Leaders flee the GPO

As British forces storm O’Connell Street, Patrick Pearse orders rebels to evacuate

Shelling: from GPO in Flames, by Norman Teeling. The paintings reproduced here are from his series The Rising, on show at the Oriel Gallery, Clare Street, Dublin 2; theoriel.com Easter Rising – Day 4: City in flames

As Trinity College became a barracks, fire wiped out the east side of O’Connell Street

Mount Street Bridge, where one of the bloodiest  fights of the Easter 1916 Rising took place.  Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Easter Rising – Day 3: The tide starts to turn

Mount Street battle erupts, an engagement in which 230 killed or wounded

Irish Volunteers and one Irish Citizen Army member inside the GPO 1916. Photograph: Defence Forces Military Archives, Cathal Brugha barracks www.militaryarchives.ie Easter Rising – Day 2: A baptism of unremitting fire

On the second day of the Easter Rising, soldiers poured into Dublin, and martial law was declared

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Main players Profiles of the 25 people who played leading roles on both sides involved in the Rising
 
Interactive map Discover where the rebels attacked, surrendered and other key Easter Rising locations
 
The Proclamation Take an interactive detailed look at what is the most famous document in Irish history
 
1916 timeline Scroll through our 1916 Rising interactive guide to see who did what and when
 
1916: then and now The Rising left Dublin in ruins - 100 years on photographer Alan Betson compares the key sites
 
Signatories A closer look at the seven signatories of the Proclamation and leaders of the Rising
 
1916 day-by-day These eyewitness accounts convey how people actually experienced the Easter Rising
 
Competition Take part in our 1916 Rising colouring competition and win a Kindle Voyage Wi-Fi
 
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