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Easter Risingor Easter Rebellion(1916) Republican insurrection in Ireland against the British, which began on Easter Monday, April 24. Led by Patrick Pearse and Tom Clarke, some 1,560 Irish Volunteers and 200 members of the Irish Citizen Army seized the Dublin General Post Office and other strategic points in Dublin. After five days of fighting, British troops put down the rebellion, and 15 of its leaders were tried and executed. Though the uprising itself had been unpopular with most of the Irish, the executions caused revulsion against the British authorities. The uprising heralded the end of British power in Ireland. Easter Rising unsuccessful Irish revolt against British (1916). [Irish Hist.: EB, III: 760–761] See : Rebellion How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Upheavals," the next-to-last section, neatly captures the relatedness of Yeats's life and work, including under that rubric both his marriage, at the age of fifty-two, to Bertha Georgie Hyde-Lees, and the Easter Rising of 1916. The Easter Rising of 1916 and the Civil War of 1922-23 - both beyond the time-frames of his published novels, but provinces of the imagination for his later works of fiction - are foreshadowed in the pattern of events Flanagan records: in both cases early triumphs are followed by great hopes that terminate in division and defeat. |
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