Members of the defence forces pass the GPO during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublins O'Connell Street.
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A general view during the Easter Sunday Commemoration Ceremony and parade on March 27, 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising in the Republic of Ireland when in 1916 a rebellion was attempted to oust British rule of the country. Photograph: Maxwells/Irish Government - Pool/Getty Images
Members of the Irish Air Corps perform a fly-past over the General Post Office (GPO), the scene of the 1916 Easter Rising, in Dublin. Photograph: Paul Faith / AFP
The ceremony in the Stone Breakers' yard in Kilmainham Gaol where 15 rebels were executed in 1916
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President Higgins lays a wreath in the Stone Breakers' yard in Kilmainham Gaol where 15 rebels were executed in 1916
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Members of the defence forces pass the GPO during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublins O'Connell Street.
Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Martin McGuinness and Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublins O'Connell Street.
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Sheila O'Leary (Aged 94) whose father Thomas Francis Byrne marched into the GPO with the Maynooth 15 in 1916, during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublins O'Connell Street.
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Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Bertie Aherne have a quiet word as members of the defence forces pass the GPO during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on O'Connell Street, Dublin.
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Members of the Naval Service and other members of the defence forces pass the GPO during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Members of the Naval Service and other members of the defence forces pass the GPO during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
President Michael D. Higgins greeting former President Mary Robinson on his arrival to the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Members of the defence forces pass the GPO during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Captain Peter Kelleher reading the proclamation during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
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President Michael D. Higgins inspecting the 107 Members of the defence forces who formed the Presidential guard of Honour, drawn from the 28th Infantry Battalion, during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916 on Dublin's O'Connell Street.
Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Gardai on the rooftops of buildings on Dublin's O'Connell Street during the ceremony commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916.
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Caroline and Jennifer Lee, Castleknock, at the parade, marking the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, on O'Connell Bridge, Dublin
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Spectators catch a glimpse of the parade, marking the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, on Dame street, Dublin
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The Air Corps flying past enroute to Dublin for the 1916 Commemoration Ceremony.
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James and Jane McNee from Canada pictured as thousands attended military parade in Dublin. Some to line streets of capital for Easter Rising commemorations. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Colllins Photos
A general view during the Easter Sunday Commemoration Ceremony and parade. Photograph: Maxwells/Irish Government - Pool/Getty Images
Participants in a cycle from Rosmuc in Connemara to Killeeneen in east Galway to commemorate the largest rising outside Dublin in 1916 led by Liam Mellows, pass by life-size images of the 1916 Proclamation signatories installed at Scoil Sailearna in Indreabhin. The hardboard representations were made by Galway artist Dara McGee. Photograph: Joe O'Shaughnessy
The Colour Party leaving Peader Kearney's grave, composer of the National Anthem, 'Amhran na bhFiann' or 'The Soilders Song' after a wreath laying ceremomy at Glasnevin Cemetery to begin the Easter Rising centenary commemorations to remember those who served and died during Easter Week 1916 . Photograph: Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography