The 90th anniversary of the Rising will be marked by a number of events this weekend.
Cork
Cork City Council will mark the anniversary on Monday when Lord Mayor Deirdre Clune will officially name a new riverside walk in the city "Slí Chumann na mBan" in honour of women involved in the struggle for independence.
The ceremony starts at noon and councillors will assemble at the Cork Public Museum in Fitzgerald Park and march along the new walk which links the Mardyke with the North Mall.
Tomorrow Sinn Féin's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness will give the oration at the Republican Plot at St Finbarr's Cemetery following a march from the Grand Parade in Cork city starting at 2pm.
In Clonakilty, west Cork, Sinn Féin has organised a parade tomorrow through the town culminating with a reading of the Proclamation and a ceremony at the Michael Collins statue.
In Mallow, the town council will hold a ceremony on Monday starting at 9.30am with a parade from the courthouse to St Mary's Church led by the Thomas Davis Pipe Band.
Afterwards, Fianna Fáil will hold a wreath-laying ceremony at the national monument on Mallow Bridge before proceeding to the Republican Plot at Goold's Hill Cemetery.
Barry Roche
Galway
The statue of Liam Mellowes is the venue for several commemorations tomorrow, starting with a Galway Republican Sinn Féin march at 11am from Galway Cathedral and a wreath-laying ceremony.
Fianna Fáil's event also takes place under the Mellowes statue shortly after noon, and will be attended by Minister of State at the Department of Justice Frank Fahey and party members.
The Galway Alliance Against War will mark the date at the statue at the same time.Members will be joined by Abubaker Deghayes, brother of a Guantanamo Bay internee, in protest over the war against Iraq.
Republican Sinn Féin has organised wreath-laying ceremonies in Loughrea and Oughterard and its main commemoration will take place at the Republican Plot at Donoghpatrick Cemetery, Headford, Co Galway, tomorrow at 3pm.
Lorna Siggins
Kilkenny
Kilkenny will hold a ceremony today at 10.30am outside Kyteler's Inn pub, which was used as a meeting place by Volunteers in 1916.
The ceremony will be led by Mayor Marie Fitzpatrick and attended by councillors and local Oireachtas representatives.
The Proclamation will be read and a trumpeter will sound The Last Post. An honour party from the 3rd Infantry Battalion based at the city's James Stephens' barracks will raise the Tricolour.
Michael Parsons