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Full copies of the Easter Proclamation are now treated as a revered Irish national icon, and a copy was sold at auction for €390,000 in December 2004. [13] A copy owned (and later signed as a memento) by Rising participant Seán T. O'Kelly was presented by him to the Irish parliament buildings, Leinster House , during his tenure as President ...
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 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.
The Final Report of the Property Losses (Ireland) Committee, 1916 was submitted to the British government on 7 April 1917, signed by the three members of the committee and its secretary. [18] The report contained a detailed overview of the claims, the procedures followed by the committee and the practical outcomes in terms of the monies to be ...
On Easter Monday 2016, Rath Cross was the location of one of a number of 1916 centenary commemoration events. [ citation needed ] In September 2016, the monument was expanded with the addition of two side figures; one representing the Volunteers in uniform, the other a family.
Some modern historians define the revolutionary period as the period from the introduction of the Third Home Rule Bill to the end of the Civil War (1912/1913 to 1923), [1] [2] or sometimes more narrowly as the period from the Easter Rising to the end of the War of Independence or the Civil War (1916 to 1921/1923). [3] [4]
Eight months later, on 24 April 1916, Pearse stood in the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin and read the Proclamation of the Republic. Although the Easter Rising was short-lived, it set in train the events that led to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. [8]
Easter Rising – Major-General John Maxwell arrived in Dublin to take command of 12,000 British troops that been dispatched to keep order. [ 95 ] Gas attacks at Hulluch – The German army launched the most concentrated gas attacks of the war on the 16th Irish Division and 15th Scottish Division near the village of Hulluch , France, causing ...