THE Ulster Unionist Party has held an event in Dublin to examine the events of the Easter Rising of 1916.
The seminar at the Royal Irish Academy on Dawson Street aimed to examine the Easter Rising from a unionist perspective.
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt was among those who spoke at the event, the first time the party is believed to have held a seminar in the city since 1922.
Keynote speakers offering a unionist perspective included academics Jason Burke and Graham Walker as well as former Royal Naval nuclear submarine commander Steve Aiken.
Among the topics for debate were unionist politics during the Irish revolutionary period as well the issue of identity.
Academic Geoffrey Sloan spoke about British intelligence and how government responses failed to stop the rebellion, while Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan discussed the topic of mixed identity.
"I'm proud to be Irish, to be British and Northern Irish," the News Letter reported.
"It is a mixture and we are all a mixture in some way.
"(This) is a chance for us to examine the Easter Rising but from a unionist point of view."
Mr Nesbitt also told Wednesday's event: "We are not here simply to be controversial.
"We are here to offer an unapologetic unionist perspective on the event of 100 years ago, the causes and the lasting consequences of what we call the rebellion and Irish nationalists prefer to call the Rising."
