IT HAS BEEN estimated that some 75 women who were members of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army served in the GPO garrison during Easter Week 1916. When most were evacuated after the building caught fire, only three remained – Elizabeth O’Farrell, Winifred Carney and, perhaps the least well known of the three, Julia Grenan. Premium service article

JOHN BRUTON thinks the 1916 Rising should never have happened and that John Redmond should be revered. If Redmond had acted differently in 1914, this might very well have been the outcome. He could have stuck to his original call for the Irish Volunteers to remain in Ireland in defence of their country. But Redmond had long since sold his political soul to British imperialism and so he became a recruiting sergeant, leading thousands of Irishmen to their deaths in the senseless slaughter that was the First World War. Premium service article

The Dungannon Clubs, the forerunner of the Sinn Féin organisation, was founded in Belfast on 8 March 1905, 110 years ago this week Free article

Mrs Clancy, in struggling with the murderers, was shot through the arm Free article

EDWARD 'NED' DALY, one of the executed 1916 leaders and commandant of the Fourth Battalion, where some of the fiercest fighting of the Rising took place, was born on Frederick Street, Limerick, in February 1891. Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 12 newspaper, first published 20th February 1915 Free article

Born on St Valentine's Day 1895 into a small-farming background in west County Tipperary, Seán Treacy grew up to become a determined IRA fighter and close comrade of Dan Breen until his death during a gun battle in Dublin City Centre in 1921 with British agents which was captured in some of Irish history's iconic photographs Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 11 newspaper, first published 13th February 1915 Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 10 newspaper, first published 6th February 1915 Free article

BOOK REVIEW: Emmet Dalton: Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer and Frank Aiken's War: The Irish Revolution 1916-23 Premium service article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 9 newspaper, first published 30th January 1915 Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 8 newspaper, first published 23rd January 1915 Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 7 newspaper, first published 16th January 1915 Free article

THE YEAR 1915 opened with James Connolly in command of the Irish Citizen Army, editor of the Irish Worker newspaper, and acting General Secretary of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union. He replaced General Secretary Jim Larkin who had departed for the United States the previous October. Premium service article

Book reviews: The Legendary ‘Lugs’ Branigan – Ireland’s Most Famed Garda and The Glorious Madness: Tales of the Irish and the Great War Free article