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The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), [2] also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War.
It remains its registered office and the principal post office of Dublin [1] — the capital city of Ireland — and is situated in the centre of O'Connell Street, the city's main thoroughfare. It is one of Ireland's most famous buildings, not least because it served as the headquarters of the leaders of the Easter Rising against British rule ...
On 20 January 2016, Ireland's first-ever commemorative €2 coin went into circulation to mark the centenary. It was designed by Emmet Mullins and featured, alongside the years 1916 and 2016, a statue of Hibernia atop the General Post Office and the word Hibernia in Book of Kells-influenced lettering.
Birth of the Irish Republic by Walter Paget: the General Post Office during the Easter Rising. 24 April – The Easter Rising began in Dublin. The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied the General Post Office, City Hall, the College of Surgeons, the Four Courts, Jacob's Factory, Boland's Mills, the South Dublin Union, and the ...
A statue, derived from an original by Edward Smyth and depicting a more confident Hibernia (with harp and spear), [8] stands in the central position of three atop the General Post Office in Dublin. [9] The statue appeared on a €2 commemorative coin in 2016 to mark the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising. [10]
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Eamon Broy (1887–1972), an officer in the Dublin Metropolitan Police acting as a double agent during Irish War of Independence. He later served as Garda Commissioner during the mid-1930s. Cathal Brugha (1874–1922), former British soldier active in the Easter Rising, the Anglo-Irish War, and the Irish Civil War.
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