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The Leaders of the 1916 Rising
(Signatories of the Proclamation)

 By David Sheridan

The 7 Signatories:
 Joseph Mary Plunkett
 Patrick Pearse
 Thomas MacDonagh
 Seán MacDiarmada
 James Connolly
 Thomas James Clarke
 Éamonn Ceannt

Joseph Mary Plunkett

Joseph Mary Plunkett

 Born: Dublin on 21st November

 Occupation: Editor of the Irish Review Newspaper

 Joined Irish Volunteers in 1913 and the IRB in 1914

 Travelled to Germany to meet Roger Casement in 1915

 Role in the Rising: Director or Military Operations, based at the GPO

 Married Grace Gifford in Kilmainham Gaol and he was executed a few hours later

Padraig Pearse

Padraig Pearse
 Born in Dublin in November 1879

 Occupation: Principal/Teacher, Barrister, Poet, Editor

 1898 he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Gaelic League

 Prolific writer in both Irish and English and became Editor of An Claidheamh Soluis

 Established 2 schools in Dublin: Colaiste Eanna and Colaiste Ide

 Founding member of the Irish Volunteers

 Author of the Proclamation of Independence

 Role in the Rising: Commander in Chief of the Irish Forces, based in the GPO

 Executed 3 May 1916

Thomas MacDonagh

Thomas MacDonagh:

 Born in Tipperary in February 1878

 Occupation: Teacher

 A great literary figure, his play “When Dawn is Come” was produced at the Abbey Theatre

 Appointed Director of Training for the Irish Volunteers in 1914, then joined the IRB

 Appointed to the IRB Military Committee in 1916

 Role in the Rising: Commander of the 2nd Battalion of Volunteers at Jacob’s Biscuit Factory

 Executed 3 May 1916

Seán
Mac Diarmada

Seán Mac Diarmada:

 Born in Kiltyclogher, County Leitrim in January 1883

 Occupation: Emigrated to Glasgow in 1900 & Belfast in 1902

 A member of the Gaelic League, he joined the IRB in 1906

 Became Managing Editor of the IRB newspaper (Irish Freedom) in 1910

 Despite suffering from Polio, he became a member of the IRB Military Committee in 1915

 Role in the Rising: He served in the GPO

 Executed 12 May 1916

James Connolly

James Connolly:

 Born in Edinburgh in June 1868

 Occupation: Politician and Trade Unionist

 Member of the Industrial Workers of the World and founder of the Irish Socialist Republican
 Party.

 Appointed Commandent-General of the Dublin forces leading the group that occupied the GPO

 Unable to stand during his execution, he was shot while sitting in a chair

 The last of the leaders to die, he was executed 12 May 1916

Thomas Clarke

Thomas Clarke:

 Born in Hampshire, England in March 1858

 Son of Irish parents, spent a lot of time in America, fleeing pending arrest

 Involved in the Fenian Dynamite Campaign in 1883 in London with O’Donovan Rossa

 Joined Clan na nGael & served 15 years & Treasurer of the IRB

 Member of the Supreme Council of the IRB from 1915

 Based in the GPO during the Rising

 “We had to evacuate the GPO. The boys put up a grand fight, and that fight will save the soul of Ireland”

 Executed 3 May 1916

Éamonn
Ceannt

Éamonn Ceannt:

 Born in Galway in September 1881

 Occupation: Dublin Corporation employee

 Co-Founder of the Irish Volunteers

 Took part in the Howth Gun-Running Operation of 1914

 Loved Irish Culture: language, history and music- an accomplished uileann piper.

 Role in the Rising: Commander of the 4th Battalion of Irish Volunteers

 Executed 8 May 1916

Leaders of the 1916 Easter
 Rising
 By Eimear Foody

The Easter Rising

• The Easter Rising or Easter Rebellion was an armed rebellion in
 Ireland during Easter Week , April 1916.

• It was launched by the Irish to end British rule and establish an
 independent Irish Republic while the UK were fighting the First
 World War .

• Here are some of the main leaders .

Patrick Pearse

• Patrick was born in Dublin in 1887

• He joined the I.R.B Military Committee in
 1916

• He came to be seen by many as the
 embodiment of the rebellion

• He was executed on the 3rd of May 1916

James Connolly

• James was born in Edinburgh in 1868

• He was a Scottish- born Irish republican

• He dropped out of school to work at the
 age of 11.

• Unable to stand due to wounds , he was
 executed sitting on 12th of May 1916

Joseph Plunkett

• Joseph Mary Plunkett was born in Dublin in
 1887

• He was a poet and journalist before the
 rising

• He was also a revolutionary and a leader of
 the 1916 Easter Rising

• He was executed on May 4th , 1916

Tom Clarke

• Thomas (Tom) James Clarke was born in
 the United Kingdom in 1858

• He was an Irish republican from County
 Tyrone

• Clarke was arguably the person most
 responsible for the Rising

• He was killed on May 3rd , 1916

Sean Mac Diarmada

• Sean Mac Diarmada was also know as
 Sean MacDermott

• He was an Irish republican and a
 revolutionary leader

• He was born in Kiltyclogher in 1883

• He was killed on May 12th ,1916

Eamonn Ceannt

• Eamonn Ceannt was actually named
 Edward Thomas Kent

• He was an Irish republican mostly know for
 his role in the Rising

• He was born in Ballymoe in 1881

• He died on May 8th ,1916

Thomas MacDonagh

• He wasn’t born in Tipperary in 1878

• He was in the I.R.B Military Committee in
 1916

• He was a political activist and a poet
 playwright

• He died on May 3rd , 1916

William Pearse

• William was born in Dublin in 1881

• He was Patrick Pearse’s younger brother

• He took part in the Rising fighting alongside
 his older brother Patrick

• He was executed on May 4th 1916 at the
 age of 34

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The 1916
Easter Rising

HOW LONG WAS THE
RISING?

• The Easter Rising lasted six
 days in total with 485 people
 killed and 2600 were
 wounded. 54 % of this were
 civilians, 30% were British
 military and 16% were Irish
 rebels.

• It started on Monday the 24
 of April 1916 to Saturday the
 29 of April.

The leaders of the Irish
Rebels

 • There were a least eight
 men executed. They were
 killed by a firing squad.
 Some of them men Eamonn
 Ceannt, Thomas James
 Clarke, James Connolly, Seán
 MacDiarmada and Thomas
 MacDonagh

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THE 1916 EASTER
 RISING
 By Jack Packer

What was the Easter Rising ?
• The Easter rising was armed rebellion in Ireland during Easter week, april1916. it
 was carried out by the Irish republican brother hood and members of the Irish
 citizens army. It was done to protest against British rule in Ireland, it was the first
 uprising since the 1798 rebellion. Only about 1250 men took part in the rising. Out
 of these about 300 when to the general post office (GPO) in Dublin. They were led
 by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly. At first the British put up no resistance as
 world was one was their main concern, but soon more British arrived in Dublin to
 fight the Irish.

THE LEADERS

Pearse was one of the main leaders of the 1916 Easter
rising. He was a trained Irish teacher and poet. His
name in Irish is Pádraig. He was born ion 1879 in Dublin
 Patrick
 Pearse
and had a great interest in the Irish language. He spent
many summers in the Gaeltacht learning Irish. He had a
huge interest in politics also.

At first Pearse only wanted home rule rather than
independence. He founded a school for boys and called
it “st Edna's school”, where children could learn about
Irish culture and language.

Pádraig Pearse was the leader who read the
proclamation form the top of the GPO

Cumann na mBhan
Cumann na mBhan “the league of women” was
founded on the 2nd of April 1914. they were founded by
Agnes O Ferally. The recruits were from diverse
background from very professional women to women
of the middle working class.
In September of 1914 when Remond was looking for
troops to fight for the British army over 3000 men
rejected him, Cumann na mBhan supported these men.
Cuman na mBhan main duty was to tend to the
wounded, gather intelligence on scouting missions and
transport arms. The were made up of over 70 women

The IRB
• The Irish republican brotherhood was led by high‐
 ranking members such as Joseph Plunket,
 Thomas Macdonough and Pádraig Pearse who
 was co‐opted by the supreme council in 1915.
 they were a small and secret revolutionary group.
 The 1916 rising was planned by a seven‐man IRB
 military council in may of 1915

GPO
 Locations
This is where the proclamation was read by Pádraig Pearse at 12.45pm on the 24 th of April. His audience of people had all left by the end
leaving only his guard listening to him
16 Moore street
When the rising reached its 5 th day it was decided that the leaders should be moved to this house in the interest of safety. This was the last
meeting place of the leaders
Liberty Hall
On the 23 rd of April the proclamation was printed here and on the 26th it was fired upon by the HMY Helga
Dublin castle
When the rising began the castle had very few British solider as it was a bank holiday and they were all at the Fairyground races. A sniper
in the opposite tower injured 53 rebels and was not killed until the last day of the rising
Boland's bakery
This was an importance strategic strong hold because it covered the railway tine into Dublin. Eamon de Valera HQ
was a small building next to the building. On the Thursday afternoon the bakery took shelling from the HMY Helga.
Late on the Friday de Valera ordered thee bakery to be evacuated

The Liberty Hall 16 Moore Street
GPO

Dublin Castle HMY Helga Boland's Bakery

1916 Easter Rising

 By
 Niall Duffy

Why did the Easter
 Rising happen?
The Rising was launched by Irish republicans to
end British rule in Ireland and establish an
independent Irish Republic while the United
Kingdom was fighting the First World War. It was
the most significant uprising in Ireland since the
rebellion of 1798 and the first armed action of
the Irish revolutionary period.

When?
The 1916 Rising started on Monday the 24th of
April 1916 and finished on Saturday 29th of April
1916.

Main Leaders

Seven of the leaders of the 1916 Rising were
Padraig Pearse, James Connolly, Thomas Clarke,
Sean MacDermott, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Eamonn
Ceannt and Thomas MacDonagh

Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz (1868 -1927)
Born Constance Gore-Booth in Lissadell Co.Sligo on
Feb 4th 1868, Countess Markievicz was the only
woman sentenced to death for her role in the
Rising. Her sentence was later commuted to life in
prison because of her gender and she was
ultimately released in an amnesty in 1917.
In 1918 she was the first woman elected to the
British Parliament, but refused to take her seat;
instead she became the only woman to hold a
cabinet position, as Minister of Labor, in the first
Irish Assembly. The countess died, virtually
penniless, in 1927.

Day 1, Easter Monday, April
 24th
● The rebels turned out in reduced numbers in
 Dublin and began operations at noon, seizing
 the General Post Office, Boland’s Mill, the
 South Dublin Union, Jacob’s factory and other
 buildings.
● The rebels failed to capture the largely
 undefended centre of the administration at
 Dublin Castle but occupied the adjacent City
 Hall instead.
● Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the
 Irish Republic outside the GPO.
● Transport and distribution services broke
 down throughout the city.
● Large-scale looting began in the O’Connell
 Street area.
● During the night, government troops quietly
 occupied the Shelbourne Hotel, occupying a
 commanding position overlooking the Citizen
 Army positions in St Stephen’s Green.

Day 2, Tuesday, April 25th
● Government forces arrived in the city by train
 overnight from Belfast and the Curragh.
● Machine-gun fired from the roof of the
 Shelbourne Hotel forced the rebels to
 leave their positions in St Stephens Green
 and withdraw into the College of Surgeons.
● Government troops retook City Hall and the
 nearby offices of the Daily Express.
● The deranged Capt Bowen-Colthurst
 arrested three innocent civilians, including
 the pacifist Francis Sheehy Skeffington, and
 had them shot the next morning.
● Lord Wimborne, one of the last Lords
 Lieutenant of Ireland, declared martial law.

Day 3, Wednesday, April
 26th
● At 8am, the shelling of an empty Liberty Hall
 began.
● Rebels held out in the Mendicity Institute,
 near the Four Courts, surrendered after
 ammunition finally ran out.
● British troops continued landing at
 Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire). The public
 welcomed soldiers by giving them food as they
 marched towards city.
● At Mount Street Bridge rebels engaged
 these troops. In a battle that lasted until
 evening, there were heavy government
 casualties.
● Fires began to spread on O'Connell Street.
● General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell was
 dispatched from London to deal with the
 Rising.

Day 4, Thursday, April 27th
● The British believed they have retaken control
 of the city.
● The stench of rotting dead horses on Sackville
 Street was now overwhelming.
● The main British objective was the taking of the
 GPO
● The city was in flames. There was fierce
 fighting in the four courts.
● There were no wages, no separation allowances
 were being paid, people were starving, there
 was nothing to buy, the shops were closed
● The Helga gunboat continued shelling. Food
 was scarce, typhoid was threatened.

Day 5, Friday, April 28th
● There were now 20,000 British soldiers in
 Dublin. General Sir John Maxwell arrived in
 the city to take charge of the army.
● 8pm. The Metropole Hotel and the GPO were
 evacuating as the Rebels retreated to Moore
 Street where they set up new headquarters.
● There was sniping in and around Camden
 Street,
● Sackville Street was smouldering, buildings
 were collapsing, there was the smell of clothes
 burning.
● The 7 main leaders made their way to a
 cottage on Henry Place off Moore Street
● The North KIng Street Massacre began and 15
 civilians were killed by the military.

Day 6, Saturday, April 29th
● Rebel leaders were concentrated around
 Moore St.,Henry Place and Moore Lane
● 12noon Pearse saw publican,Robert Dillon killed

 by British soldiers and his family shot down
 and decided on a ceasefire
● 12.45pm Nurse Elizabeth OFarrell left 16
 Moore Street and approached the military
 with a message of surrender from the rebels.
● 3.30pm Pearse left 16 Moore Street and
 surrendered.
● By 7.30pm ,calm was almost completely

 restored .

Number of people killed
Of the 485 people killed in the Easter Rising: 54
percent were civilians, 30 percent were British
military and police and 16 percent were Irish
rebels. More than 2,600 were wounded. Many of
the civilians were killed or wounded by British
artillery and machine guns or were mistaken for
rebels. Others were caught in the crossfire in the
crowded city. The shelling and resulting fires left
parts of central Dublin in ruins.

After the rebellion
After the Easter Rising conflict, the leaders of
the rebellion were given trials in British courts
and were sentenced to death. Fourteen were
executed by British soldiers at Kilmainham jail in
Dublin. The prisoners eyes were covered with
blindfolds and they were shot. Among them were
the leaders, Patrick Pearse and James Connolly.
Another leader, Thomas Kent was later shot in
Cork, Ireland. Roger Casement was hanged in
London, England. Countess Markievicz was sent to
jail . Eamonn de Valera was not sentenced to death
because he was an American .

The 1916 Rising had failed to get independence for
Ireland. However the rising had made the cause of
Independence more popular as many Irish people
were so outraged by the executions that they also
began to call for independence from Britain.

At first the people in Dublin were confused and
angry, because many had died and food supplies
were cut off. But after the British shot the

leaders, some of the Irish people began to follow
and support them in sympathy for their cause.

The Easter Rising was a major reason for the
creation of the Irish Republic and the Irish War
of Independence.

1916 Easter Rising

 by Robyn o’ConnoR

1916 Easter Rising

What caused the Easter Rising
• The Easter Rising was a major event in Irish history.
 It was a rebellion in Dublin, at Easter in 1916. It was
 carried out by members of the Irish Republican
 Brotherhood and members of the Irish Citizens
 Army. It was done to protest against British rule in
 Ireland. It was the first uprising in Ireland since
 the 1798 rebellion.

1916 Easter Rising
 When was the Easter Rising
 The 1916 Easter Rising started on April 24th 1916 and ended on April 29th 1916
 which means that it lasted 5 days.
• At the time, Ireland was ruled by Britain but many people in
 Ireland wanted independence. In 1915, some groups of men—
 including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly—decided to rebel
 against the British.
• They planned uprisings all over the country. However, the leaders
 disagreed about how the rebellion should be carried out. Also,
 guns were supposed to reach Ireland by ship from Germany. The
 British discovered this part of the plan and stopped the weapons
 from reaching the rebels. After this, some of the leaders issued an
 order to halt the uprising

1916 Easter Rising timeline Events.

Monday 24th April 1916
• 150 Irish volunteers marched from Liberty Hall to the GPO.
 Pàdraig Pearse was the commander-in-chief.
• At the GPO, Pearse read the proclamation of the Irish
 Republic. The Irish flag is raised over the GPO.
• Other groups of volunteers occupied and took over other
 buildings around Dublin such as Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, The
 Four Courts, Boland’s Mill and The College Of Surgens.
 The GPO becomes the headquarters of the Easter Rising.

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Tuesday 25th April 1916
• Looters begin to empty shops on Sackville Street (O’Connell
 Street) for their goods.
• The British were not successful in their efforts to retake the
 GPO, leaving many of their army and horses dead.
• Inside the GPO, all was well and calm. However, Pearse
 announced that there was a shortage of ammunition.
• The volunteers were preparing for a British invasion, who had
 begun to surround the city.

1916 Easter Rising
Wednesday 26th April 1916
• At Boland’s Mill, Eamon de Valera and some of the
 volunteers ambushed a group of British soldiers and
 succeed.
• Gunfire was heard all over the city.
• The British had sent their gunboat The Hegla up the
 Liffey which was firing at Liberty Hall.
• More than 200 British soldiers were killed.

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Thursday 27th April 1916
• James Connolly got injured close to Sackville Street. He
 returned to the GPO to seek help and the fighting continued.
Friday 28th April 1916
• The GPO was in flames. Many of the volunteers were dead
 and others were badly injured. Despair hit across the city as
 defeat began to set in.
• Pearse oederd the evacuation of the GPO

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Surrendered to the British
• Within a week, the leaders of the rising realized they would not be able to
 beat the army. They surrendered and were arrested by the British.
• The trials of the leaders of the Easter Rising were held in secret.
• Pearse and 14 other leaders were sentenced to death.
• More than 500 people had died in the rising, including many ordinary
 citizens.

1916 Easter Rising
Some Interesting Facts!
• Only 2,500 copies of the proclamation were printed. Very few
 original copies have survived. In recent years, one sold at an
 auction for €390,000 Fun Facts!
• Of the 485 people killed in the Easter Rising: 54 percent were
 civilians, 30 percent were British military and police and 16
 percent were Irish rebels. More than 2,600 were wounded.
• Many of the civilians were killed or wounded by British
 artillery and machine guns or were mistaking for rebels.
• Sadly, over 40 children died during the Rising also.

1916 Easter Rising
Did You Know?
• After the Easter Rising, one of the rebels,
 Eamon de Valeria, was sentenced to death.
 However, he ended up serving only a brief
 prison term and went on to become one of
 Ireland’s leading political figures, with a career
 spanning half a century.

The GPO Today
• The General Post Office today stands proudly in the
 centre of O'Connell Street.
• Under the new Irish Government, reconstruction of the
 GPO began in 1925 and the building reopened in 1929
• It is the headquarters of the Irish Post Office, An Post,
 and Dublin's principal post office.
• It is now one of Ireland's most famous buildings, and
 was the last of the great Georgian public buildings
 erected in the capital.

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The 1916 Easter Rising

 The Easter rising started on the 24 of April 1916 and
 ended on the 29 of April 1916.
 The Easter Rising was A rebellion in Dublin, Ireland at
 Easter in 1916.
 It was done to protest against British rule in Ireland.
 It was the first uprising in Ireland since the 1798
 rebellion.
 Two of the most important leaders of the IRB were
 Thomas Clarke and Sean Mc Dermott.
 They made plans for a rebellion, which they kept secret
 from the leaders of the Irish Volunteers.
 The rebellion or rising would begin on Easter Sunday April
 23rd 1916.
 On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of men marched
 from Liberty Hall to the General Post Office (GPO) in
 Sackville Street (now O' Connell Street).
 They were led by the secret military council of the IRB
 and James Connolly.
 A women's organisation called Cumann na mBan also
 marched with them.
 Some wore the grey-green uniform of the Irish Citizens
 Army.
 They were armed with rifles, handguns and shotguns, but
 had very little ammunition.

 By Rachel Hannon

The Easter Rising
 Some fascinating buildings such as the Dublin Bread
 Company didn’t survive the Easter Rising. Others are now
 shopping centres and bustling office blocks.
 The leaders of the insurrection had gambled on the British
 not using artillery in Dublin city centre, but the sight of
 the Helga on the Liffey with her guns trained on Liberty
 Hall quickly vanquished those thoughts early on Easter
 week, 1916.
 In quelling the Rising, the British forces left a fiery trail
 of destruction in Ireland’s capital — as damages ran into
 the millions as new political powers faced the daunting
 challenge of rebuilding a nation.
 The Easter Rising lasted just seven anarchic days yet it is
 marked as one of the most tumultuous and significant
 events in Irish history.
 Sixteen men associated with leading this revolution were
 executed within weeks.
 Hundreds were killed and thousands more arrested and
 interned at jails in England and Wales.
 The Rising left iconic buildings in Dublin’s city centre
 flattened to the ground with British rule in Ireland in a
 state of irreconcilable civil and political chaos.
 From seven signatories of the Proclamation of
 Independence to the political leaders there is lots of great
 information.
 Those at the forefront of the dramatic events of Easter
 week almost 100 years ago tell a remarkable story fired by
 passion but filled with bloodshed.

 There are remarkable characters too on the fringes of the
 insurrection, such as the pacifist Francis Sheehy-
 Skeffington who was murdered in the Dublin suburbs.

 By Rian Hannon

1916 Easter Rising
 By Trudie Moran

Timeline
1913 AD = James Connolly and James Larkin lead the Dublin Lockout.

1914 AD=Ernest Shackleton leads an exploration to the South Pole.

1916 AD =Easter Rising starts in Dublin.

1918 AD =World War 1 finally ends.

1918 AD =Irish Women are allowed to vote.

The Irish Republican Brotherhood
The IRB was a secret organisation of a small
number of the 10,000 who would not fight for
Britain during World War 1 . The leaders of
the IRB was Joseph Plunkett Thomas
MacDonagh and Padraig Pearse.There aim
was to set up a Irish Republic and they Joseph Plunkett
believed armed rebellion was the only way to Thomas MacDonagh
achieve it . While Britain Was fighting in
World War 1 the IRB agreed it was a good
time to start a rebellion.
 Padraig Pearse

Ireland in 1916
Most of the people of Ireland supported Britain during
World War 1.While this awful war was being fought
throughout Europe , Ireland seemed peaceful .Home Rule
had been promised when the war was over and there was
no reason to expect a rebellion 1916 .But there was small
groups of people who believed WW1 had nothing to do
with the people of Ireland .’’We neither serve neither the
King nor Kaiser,But Ireland’’was said by a man called
James Connelly….

James Connolly
James Connolly was born in Edinburgh in 1868.
He emigrated to Dublin in 1896 were he
founded the Irish socialist Republican party . He
spent time in America but soon returned to
Ireland to look for workers rights with a man
known as James Larkin . He was one of the
founders of an army to protect workers.On the
Easter rising James was the
Commandant-General for the Dublin Forces .
About 150 of the Rebels took over the G.P.O.
James Connolly was the Leader of the group.
He was wounded in the G.P.O. and was
executed in May 1916.

The Dublin Lockout
The Dublin Lockout happened on the 26th of August
1913. The lockout happened because the Dublin bosses
under William Martin Murphy tried to destroy the ITUGW
by locking out all the workers who refused to resign
from the Union some 20,000 workers were locked out
by around 300 employers . The leaders of the Dublin
Lockout were James Connolly and James Larkin.

Easter Monday
On Easter Monday 1916 a Small group of
men Marched to the G.P.O. They were led to
by the secret IRB and James Connolly. An
organisation of women marched alongside
them. They were called Cumann na
mBan.some were armed with
Rifles,Shotguns and Handguns but had
hardly any ammunition.

 Cumann na mBan

THE BEGINNING OF THE RISING
When the military council and the Cumann na mBan arrived at the G.P.O. ,The
rebels barged in and barricaded the doors . There was two British people in the
G.P.O. buying stamps they became the first prisoners of war.The rebels took down
the British flag and and put up a green white and orange tricolour and a green flag
with the words ‘Irish Republic’. Padraig Pearse stood on a pavement outside the
G.P.O. and read the Irish proclamation. the Easter rising had officially begun.

The week
Tuesday April 25th. Even though Wednesday April 26th. A British
there was only 2000 rebels in the Fisheries Patrol boat,the Helga, it
Easter rising they took everybody by sailed up the river Liffey and
surprise. On the morning of Tuesday attacked Liberty and Boland’s Mills
they took their positions armed with The British marched into kingstown
machine guns and a lot of artillery.In but were matched with a fierce
the College of surgeons there was attack from the Irish .
around 100 rebels under the
leadership of countess Marchavicz . 5
of the irish were killed.

The week
Thursday April 27th. At 10:00 am,the Friday April 28th.General Maxwell
British started to bomb sackville arrived from England to command
street.At the end of the day some of the British forces.The roof of the
the street was engulfed in flames. G.P.O. caught fire at 4:00 pm five
James Connolly was seriously hours later the building was a
wounded.A man called Dr Jim Ryan burning ruin the rebels evacuated
treated Connolly he said Connolly the G.P.O. and went to moore street.
was an extremely patient man who
never complained even if he was in a
lot of pain.

SURRENDER
On Saturday the 29th the
rebels decided to
surrender. More than 300
Irish people had been
killed most of them were
innocent civilians.
Elizabeth O’Farrell a nurse
made her way through Moore
Street carrying a surrender
flag.
 Elizabeth O’Farrell

The Aftermath
General Maxwell said that the rebels
were sided with Germany during the
war and there for Ireland had
commited treason . On the 3rd of
May, 1916 ,Padraig Pearse , Thomas
Mcdonagh and Thomas Clarke and
James Connolly were all executed
Eamon de Valera and Countess
Markievicz,were spared because
Eamon was American and Countess
Markievicz was a woman.

Sinn Fein
After the rising, about 1800 IRB members were brought to prison camps in Britain.
Sinn Fein were blamed for the rising.

However ,Sinn Fein, founded by Arthur Griffith in 1905 ,Had nothing to do with the
rising.

The prisoners were released at Christmas 1916. When the prisoners came home
they started to support Sinn Fein. In 1917 Eamon de Valera became the leader of
Sinn Fein. The failure of the Easter Rising did not mean the end of the IRB.Ireland
was now set for a revolution…...

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