Scenes from the 1916 Easter Rising in Enniscorthy will be re-enacted on Easter Monday. Pic: John Walsh.

A dress rehearsal for the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising in Enniscorthy can be witnessed at the 99th commemoration in the town on Easter Monday.

The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. with a commemorative Mass celebrated in St. Aidan’s Cathedral.

Following Mass, a 1916 parade led by members of the Irish Defence Forces will assemble at St. Aidan’s Cathedral, march through the town and finish at Market Square.

The sacrifices and significant achievements of all Wexford people who fought in the 1916 rising will be remembered with a special ceremony in Market Square.

Events include, reading of The Proclamation, sounding the Last Post, playing the National Anthem and laying wreaths in memory of all Wexford people who participated in the 1916 Rising.

Following the ceremony re-enactment groups from all across Ireland will converge on Market Square to re-create a 1916 era Battle.

Re-enactors dressed in Irish Volunteers and Cumman Na mBan uniforms will lead an assault on an RIC Barracks defended by members of the Royal Irish Constabulary.

Enniscorthy is remembered as the only town outside of Dublin to rise in Easter 1916.

For four days the town was controlled by local Irish Volunteers and Cumman Na mBan members, while the tricolour flew over the Athenaeum.

The organisers, Wexford County Council in conjunction with the 1916 Commemorative Committee, are hoping that large numbers of spectators will experience the sights and sounds of battle as history comes alive on the streets of Enniscorthy.