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The Proclamation of the Republic (Irish: Forógra na Poblachta), also known as the 1916 Proclamation or the Easter Proclamation, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April 1916. [1] [2] In it, the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood ...
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.
1916: Proclamation of the Irish Republic: Proclaims Irish independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1919: Declaration of Independence (Ireland) Adopted by Dáil Éireann; "ratifies" the 1916 Proclamation. 1923: Declaration of the Rights of the Child
Cover page of the Declaration. The Declaration of Independence (Irish: Forógra na Saoirse, French: Déclaration d'indépendance) was a document adopted by Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary parliament of the Irish Republic, at its first meeting in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 21 January 1919.
Download as PDF; Printable version ... a restatement of the 1916 Proclamation with the additional provision that ... is a unique feature of the Irish print media ...
[2] The Library is the permanent home to the Brian Boru harp, a national symbol of Ireland, as well as a copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic and the Book of Kells. One of the four volumes of the Book of Kells is on public display at any given time. [3]
Emmet’s Proclamation of the Provisional Government to the People of Ireland, his Speech from the Dock, and his "sacrificial" end on the gallows inspired later generations of Irish republicans. His memory was invoked by Patrick Pearse who in 1916 was again to proclaim a provisional government in Dublin.
With the Declaration of Independence, the Dáil ratified the Proclamation of the Irish Republic that had been issued in the 1916 Rising, [19] and pledged "to make this declaration effective by every means". It stated that "the elected representatives of the Irish people alone have power to make laws binding on the people of Ireland, and that ...