THE front page of The Irish News on Easter Monday 1916 carried no inkling of the events that were about to change Irish history, with an advert for Clonard Picture House's special holiday programme occupying the most prominent place on page one.
Adverts dominated the front page of The Irish News at the time, with news stories covered inside the six-page newspaper.
The front page was packed with details of plays to be staged in Easter week, including events to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary celebrations taking place at The Ulster Hall.
In the news section, reports from battles across Europe in the First World War dominated the coverage throughout the period both during and after the Rising. Irish families, many of whose relatives were fighting for the British at the front, were kept up to date with regular news from the battlefields.
Detailed coverage of religious and parish events during Easter week were also a staple of the paper.
In Easter week 1916, The Irish News apologised to readers that the production of the paper had been disrupted due to a breakdown in telegraphic communications with London.
The communications cut had left the paper "devoid of the news which the public were entitled to expect, and of all the commercial and sporting intelligence which are ordinarily features of our news columns".
The content of some articles, even 100 years on, has not varied substantially, with court reports as popular an inclusion in 1916 as in 2016.
On April 25 1916, there was an article on Mr John Small, of Waring Street in Belfast, who was fined 10 shillings for disorderly behaviour in the city centre.
During an altercation with a tramway official, Mr Small was reported to have told a policeman it would be better "if he were out shooting the Germans instead of shaking one of his fellow countrymen".
The paper also reported on how there was laughter in the House of Commons when one MP asked how many houses searched in Ulster had a portrait of the Kaiser displayed in their homes.
The report stated that the reply was that records of such occurrences were not likely to exist.
Alongside serious news about the Rising and the First World War, there were some rather more bizarre articles.
Written in highly formal style, several columns were devoted to May Day parties in Ireland, while short stories – designed to brighten up the reader's day with a bit of humour – made up most of page two of The Irish News.
Complaints about the cost of food are seemingly eternal, but one report on the issue contained a line unlikely to be written in 2016.
The article bemoaned how, 10 years previously, "a family could have lived, and lived well, on a few pounds a week."
