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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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