Easter Rising in Dublin
April 24, 1916
About sixteen hundred Irish republicans seized the Dublin post office and proclaimed a republic. British artillery shelled them out in a week. The rebels were unpopular until the executions began; fifteen of them faced firing squads, and Irish opinion turned hard. Within seven years Ireland would be free of Britain in everything but the north.
In context
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