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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.
On the Easter Proclamation: And Other Declarations. Four Courts Press. ISBN 9781851823222. Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins (ISBN 0-09-174106-8) Tim Pat Coogan, De Valera (ISBN 0-09-175030-X) Dorothy McCardle, The Irish Republic; Arthur Mitchell and Padraig Ó Snodaigh, Irish Political Documents: 1916–1949; John O'Connor, The 1916 Proclamation
Thomas James Clarke (Irish: Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh; 11 March 1858 – 3 May 1916 [1]) was an Irish republican and a leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising.
Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; Irish: Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen ...
The novel was the first to depict the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin by Irish Nationalists in comic form, [1] and has been praised for avoiding artistic licence when re-telling the story [1] and for the extensive research that was done to maintain factual authenticity, [2] though some claimed it carried a 'strong pro-Republican bias ...
The first day of the Easter Rising, Monday, 24 April 1916, saw some 1,200 volunteer soldiers of the Irish Volunteers take over positions in the centre of Dublin, launching the week-long revolution known as the Easter Rising.
Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The rebellion was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed.
The IRB staged the Easter Rising in 1916, which led to the establishment of the first Dáil Éireann in 1919. The suppression of Dáil Éireann precipitated the Irish War of Independence and the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Irish Free State , which excluded the territory of Northern ...