Other reports that day include that "the Austrians had dropped here and there a quantity of sweets, some wrapped in red and blue paper. The news was soon spread that they were poisoned"

Decorations awarded posthumously to patriots’ Thomas Clarke and Joseph Plunkett

Will this weekend’s major centenary auction live up to the attendant hype around 1916 memorabilia?

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

1916 Medals were awarded posthumously to Thomas Clarke and Joseph Plunkett

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

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

1916/2016: a miscellany

The National Library files on 1916 Proclamation signatory Seán Mac Diarmada show he was a ‘doer’ more than a writer

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

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

An Irish school teacher, a Scottish trade unionist, an aristocratic woman and a British officer were among the main players in the 1916 Rising

Chief Secretary to Ireland told police there must be ‘no interference’ in funeral

Vote to list properties as having historical importance goes against recommendation

Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) obsessively monitored future rebels

Ned O’Sullivan accuses Senator of driving ‘coach and four’ through Rising history

Oration at the grave of O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 was filmed for posterity

Despite the stoicism and forgiveable innacuracies in his account of the executions of the leaders of the Rising, there are glimpses of flesh and feelings

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