1916 Easter Rising
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1916 Easter Rising
The 1916 Easter Rising
The first big rebellious action of the Irish against the British is called the Easter Rising. This Rising occurred on Easter Monday April 24th 1916 in Dublin. A Proclamation of the Republic of Ireland had been written to the Irish people. A part of it says: "Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish citizen Army, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on her own strength, she strikes in full confidence of victory." The seven rebel leaders who signed this Proclamation were executed by the British Government. Why?
The British ruled in Ireland for over two centuries. They thought it would last a while longer, since the Irish were far back with technology than the British were. Most of the Irish were farmers and thought everything was going alright. But the educated Irish, the ones the British thought they had in their pockets, didn't think so at all.
Especially when the British liberals let Ireland down during the Great Famine of 1846. The British didn't help the Irish out by giving food, because that would have interfered with the workings of the free market. After a while they did give the Irish partial sovereignty over their own affairs and a Home Rule Bill was passed. But then the First World War began and the home Rule was set aside till the Germans would be defeated. They thought they could wait a few more years, because thousands of Irish would be fighting in the war anyway. They probably wouldn't even realise what was going on, and most of them didn't...
But some of the Irish did. The members of the IRB for example, of which...
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