Documentary makers have used high-end digital technology to re-create a medical model showing the impact of the 74-day hunger strike on Terence MacSwiney’s body.

Discover this year's range of exhibitions, events and publications relating to the Decade of Centenaries in Cork.

Speaking in January 2020, in Cork City Hall, Tánaiste Simon Coveney announced that ‘a major commemorative programme will take place throughout the year, hosted by Cork City Council, in collaboration with Cork County Council and with significant State recognition, support and participation’.

Atlas of the Irish Revolution Exhibition opens in St Peters, Cork and will run until December 2019. 

Members of the Capuchin order had key roles in the Irish revolution

Hundreds of metres of tunnels have been discovered at Spike Island, which have yielded up prisoners’ badges and a host of military equipment, including parts of coastal defence guns, writes Sean O’Riordan, Irish Examiner

100 years ago this week, just before shipping was made safer by the entry of the United States into World War I, a number of Cork vessels were sunk by German U-boats and mines.

The early years of production at the Ford plant in Cork coincided with an era of instability and turmoil. The decision to build the plant was made 12 months after the 1916 Rising, and it began operations during the War of Independence.

A key to an important incident in Cork’s revolutionary history has been returned to the city — 98 years after its role in a daring jailbreak.

Thomas Walsh of the Irish Citizen Army will be remembered at a ceremony in his native city next weekend, writes Niall Murray