Culture Ireland's international culture programme entitled I Am Ireland, part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, was announced on Saturday 3 October by Minister of State Aodhán Ó Ríordáin with an event at Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre.

Ireland 2016, a national initiative which includes a programme of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising was launched in Dublin on Wednesday by Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Minister Heather Humphreys, An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, An Tánaiste Joan Burton, and Minister of State at the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.