RTÉ Archives makes eyewitness accounts of the Easter Rising available online.
An interactive map produced by RTÉ will make interviews with men and women who lived through the week of the 1916 Easter Rising available online. The interviews were recorded originally for radio and television and are held by RTÉ Archives.
Min Ryan, recalls visiting her partner, Seán Mac Diarmada, at Kilmainham Gaol on the eve of his execution, which took place on 12 May 1916. Her story is just one of the personal accounts that can be found on rte.ie/1916.
Liam Wylie, the curator at RTÉ Archives, explains how these interviews have been placed on an interactive map of Dublin. People can click on a location on the map and hear the stories from people who were there during Easter Week 1916.
The Century Ireland project uses essays, articles, film and social media to bring the events of Easter Week 1916 to life. Professor Mike Cronin explains that Century Ireland will provide an hour by hour, day by day account of the Easter Rising through social media.
We're going to tweet the whole rising, hour by hour, during the whole week of the commemorations.
RTÉ is also seeking assistance from the public in identifying a Dublin jarvey featured in the archive. The man in question was at Fairyhouse Racecourse on Easter Monday, 1916. He was interviewed in 1962, describing a near miss with a bullet as he returned to Dublin City.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 25 January 2016. The reporter is Sinéad Crowley.
