The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916...
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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...
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Easter Rising is a musical written by Isaac Oliver with a score by Michael Arden. Set in Plano, Texas, this "four person song cycle questions the limits...
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Irish Volunteers (section Easter Rising, 1916)
The Easter Rising Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1999, p. 5" Coogan, Tim Pat, The IRA, 1984 ed, page 33 Foy, Michael & Brian Barton, The Easter Rising, 2004...
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private, as well as a captain of the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising. During the Citizen Army's inception in 1913, he was a member of the...
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this article: Easter, 1916 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...
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Lillie Connolly (section Easter Rising)
James Connolly, the Irish revolutionary who was involved in the 1916 Easter Rising. The year of Connolly's birth remains uncertain but it is believed that...
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Cumann na mBan (section Role in the 1916 Easter Rising)
which held their meetings in Brunswick Street before and after the 1916 Easter Rising. The constitution of Cumann na mBan contained explicit references to...
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Irish Republican Brotherhood (section Easter Rising)
Parliamentary Party, as well as taking part in the Land War. The IRB staged the Easter Rising in 1916, which led to the establishment of the first Dáil Éireann in...
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Willie Pearse (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
republican executed for his part in the Easter Rising. He was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the rising. Willie Pearse was born in Dublin...
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Semi-centennial of the Easter Rising in Ireland occurred in 1966. Many events took place to mark the events of 1916. Celebrations began on Easter Sunday on April...
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Nora Connolly O'Brien (section 1916 Easter Rising)
field near Balbriggan only to arrive hours after the leaders of the Easter Rising surrendered. She vividly remembers visiting her father James Connolly...
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republican combatants who died during or were executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. Depending on the political affiliations of the bearer, it can also...
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Joseph Plunkett (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish...
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organisation. This related to her involvement in a statement given at an Easter Rising rally in Derry in 2011. On the same day the Secretary of State for Northern...
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Seán O'Casey (section After the Easter Rising)
understood to be set in Mountjoy Square, where he lived during the 1916 Easter Rising. It was followed by Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the...
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late in 1915, a position he held during the Easter Rising of 1916, though he took no active role in the rising itself. He was not a member of the Military...
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rainwear factory.[citation needed] In April 1916, at the outset of the Easter Rising, Mac Curtain commanded a force of up to 1,000 men of the Irish Volunteers...
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be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood". It was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was raised above Dublin's General Post Office by Gearóid...
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Tom Clarke (Irish republican) (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
Brotherhood. Clarke was arguably the person most responsible for the 1916 Easter Rising. A proponent of armed struggle against British rule in Ireland for most...
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Thomas MacDonagh (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
educationalist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, a signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and Commandant...
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of the Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland occurred in 2016. Many events were held throughout the country to mark the occasion. Note that Easter Sunday fell...
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Irish War of Independence (section Easter Rising)
launched the Easter Rising against British rule and proclaimed an Irish Republic. Although it was defeated after a week of fighting, the Rising and the British...
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and County Cork began manoeuvres, but returned home. 24 April – The Easter Rising began in Dublin. The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied...
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context. In 2016, when Ireland was marking the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Geldof caused controversy when he likened the rebel leaders to Islamist...
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Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising. Gifford's parents were Frederick Gifford, a solicitor and a Roman Catholic...
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Seán Mac Diarmada (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
activist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, which he helped to organise as a member of the Military Committee...
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Patrick Pearse (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came...
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James Connolly (category Executed participants in the Easter Rising)
socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both...
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Thomas Ashe (category People of the Easter Rising)
founding member of the Irish Volunteers. He was a senior commander in the Easter Rising of 1916. After release from prison just over a year later he was soon...
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