"It is special for me to honour the work of our martyred Lord Mayor, Tomás MacCurtain, and the role that he played in establishing the Cost-of-Living Commission." 

On the centenary of Michael Collins’s killing at Béal na Bláth, Donal O’Keeffe looks at how his death was reported in his native county, and how the Evening Echo came out early to break the story.

“In his short 31 years he rose from a modest West Cork home to become a leader in a struggle for independence, a struggle which is responsible for what is today one of the longest continuous democracies in the world.”

"In his short 31 years he rose from a modest West Cork home to become a leader in a struggle for independence – a struggle which is responsible for what is today one of the longest continuous democracies in the world." 

A new Cork exhibition features letters between Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan, letters between Kitty Kiernan and Harry Boland, photographs, correspondence, and many other items never seen before by the public.

Paying tribute to Michael Collins, the Tánaiste described him as the "great prophet of freedom" who was killed before we reached the promised land.

Here's handy guide to all the main events so you don't miss out. 

He was shot dead by British forces at the convent gate in the top of Blarney St.

IT WAS an emotional day on the blustery peak of Cork City on Wednesday, as the Irish flag was raised in Collins Barracks, just as it was exactly 100 years ago when British troops marched out of the army base for the last time.

President Michael D Higgins led the commemorations. 

A revolver the republican leader reputedly had on his person when helping spring fellow revolutionary and future taoiseach Éamon de Valera from Lincoln Jail in 1919 has also gone under the hammer. 

More events are scheduled to be held throughout Cork city tomorrow to mark the centenary of the Cork volunteer’s death.

CORK City Council is to call upon the Government to consider changing the design of the national side of Irish euro coins to include names and images of Michael Collins, Constance Markievicz and James Connolly.

CORK County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland have published an online Story Map entitled ‘Ambush at Coolnacaheragh, West Cork, Ireland: A story of conflict and sacrifice in the Irish War of Independence, February 25 1921’.

At approximately 10. 30pm on the night of December 11 1920, Cork City Fire Brigade began to receive the first of the devastating calls alerting them to the fact that much of the city centre was up in flames.

AS the people of Cork and the officers of the Cork City Fire Brigade commemorate the centenary of the Burning of Cork tomorrow, it will be a particularly poignant moment for one service member.

ANNIVERSARY mass will be held in SS Peter and Paul’s Church on Tuesday at 11. 30am to mark the centenary of Michael Murphy’s tragic shooting. The Tower Street native was murdered by suspected British forces outside the same church at 9.

RELATIVES of the west Cork men who defeated the Auxiliaries at the Kilmichael Ambush visited the site in recent days to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the event.

THE centenary of Kilmichael Ambush will be marked online later this month as commemoration activities move to the internet because of the Covid-19 restrictions.

A JERSEY commemorating the 100th anniversary of Kilmichael Ambush by a local GAA club has attracted attention from as far away as the US. The centenary of the ambush is on November 28.

This year marks a century since the death of then-Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney, who died in Brixton Prison in October 1920, following almost 80 days on hunger strike.

The theme of this year's Parade is 'A City Rising 1920-2020' and to reflect their ancestor's importance in 1920, the descendants of the Tomás MacCurtain and Terence McSwiney families will make up the Grand Marshal group.

A HOST of events, projects and ceremonies taking place this year will commemorate the centenary of important historic events in Cork. Thirty-one projects have been awarded money by Cork City Council for commemoration events.

UP to 50,000 spectators are expected to attend this years’ St Patrick’s Day parade in Cork City.

{element}The official unveiling took place today of a mural at the North Monastery School, Fairhill, dedicated to the memory of Tomas MacCurtain, Terence MacSwiney (his successor as Lord Mayor, and also a past pupil of the school), and other famous ...

There will be a significant Cork focus to the 1920 centenary celebrations according to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

The large banner draped over a building on Cork’s Grand Parade should be used to mark the centenary of events in Cork in 2020.