President Éamon de Valera visits the partially restored Kilmainham Gaol and returns to the cell where he had been interred following the Easter Rising.
A major exhibition of the work of artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
On the centenary of the Fenian Rising of 1867 commemorations took place at the Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square in Dublin.
A selection of some of the oddities, quirky tales, curious stories, wonderful individuals and bizarre events from Irish life.