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At Swim, Two Boys is a 2001 novel by Irish writer Jamie O'Neill, set in Dublin before and during the 1916 Easter Rising. Rebel Heart, is a 2001 BBC miniseries on the life of a (fictional) nationalist from the Rising through the Irish Civil War. Blood Upon the Rose is a 2009 graphic novel by Gerry Hunt depicting the events of the Easter Rising ...
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.
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
Clanwilliam Place, Mount Street, May 17 1916 The advancing British stopped at Carisbrook House and learned about the Volunteers' presence in the area, responding to sniper fire. The column came under fire from the two men in 25 Northumberland Road, and it took the British five hours of continued firing to dislodge them from the building.
In all probability, such distinctions were unimportant to the leaders of the Rising, and in the lead-up to Easter 1916, and during Easter Week itself, all their energies were devoted to the military campaign. With their deaths in the first two weeks of May 1916 the first government of the Irish Republic came to an end.
A weekend of commemorations marking the occasion began on Easter Eve (26 March), as President Michael D. Higgins laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin. This was preceded by the traditional Irish song "The Parting Glass" being performed by the Island of Ireland Peace Choir and succeeded by a minute's silence.
Leaders and men of the Easter Rising: Dublin, 1916. London: Methuen. Moran, Sean Farrell, Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption, Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1994. Townshend, Charles (2005). Easter 1916: the Irish rebellion. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9690-0.
Easter Rising – Major-General John Maxwell arrived in Dublin to take command of 12,000 British troops that been dispatched to keep order. [ 94 ] 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 ...