The scene of the last stand of the Easter Rising leaders will now become part of a wider redevelopment, including turning the GPO into a museum to the events of 1916.

Arising from last weekend's report in this newspaper, Brendan Plunkett wrote with his family's recollections of 16 Moore Street.

His grandfather, Patrick Plunkett, lived in the house in 1916 where, a few years previously, his father John Plunkett had actually been born. The family operated a successful butchering business at 16 Moore Street for almost 40 years.

When Padraig Pearse and his colleagues were negotiating the terms of their surrender to the British forces, some notes were written on a sheet of cardboard which was later found in the house. This cardboard was in fact the backing to a photograph of Mary Plunkett, Brendan's grandmother, and it was purchased by the National Library in 1967.

When the hostilities were over, Cumann na mBan presented the Plunkett family with new bed linen to replace sheets torn to dress the wounds of the injured, including James Connolly.