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	ireland.com / Focus / The 1916 Rising
		This Easter Rising is, depending on one's point of view, the founding act of a democratic Irish State, a historic act of treachery, a mandate for any unelected group to take up arms in the name of the Irish Republic, a supreme expression of unselfish idealism.
		The leaders of the Rising may have begun with the notion of staging a real military revolt that would overthrow British rule, but by Easter Monday, when the hoped-for German aid had failed to materialise and a countermanding order had weakened their mobilisation, they knew that this was an impossibility.
		The Rising had an anarchic feel: the rebels' plans went awry from the start, the authorities were unprepared, and in the first days the citizens, out of touch, were stunned.
	www.ireland.com /focus/easterrising (1533 words)

	Easter Rising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rising, which was largely organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, lasted from April 24 to April 30, 1916.
		By the end of the war, however, and primarily as a result of the Rising, the support of nationalist voters had swung away from the IPP to the militant republicans, as represented by the Sinn Féin Party.
		Critics of the Rising have pointed to the fact that the Rising is generally seen as having been doomed to military defeat from the outset, and to have been understood as such by at least some of its leaders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Easter_Rising (3666 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Easter Rising, Dublin 1916
		As 1916 neared final plans for a rebellion were made by the IRB.
		Easter 1916 was set as the date with Connolly in total cooperation with the planners.
		The signal for the commencement of the rising was supposed to have been quite spectacular.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/easterrising.htm (3096 words)

	1916 in Ireland : What are you celebrating?
		The rising itself was led by middle class nationalists.
		Far from cherishing all the children of the nation equally, working class children are denied the right to attend third level education yet their parents fork out a fortune in taxes to subsidise the children of the rich.
		The Countess Markiewicz, one of the heroines of the rising, warned against the "dangers of social revolution".
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/ws91/national31.html (801 words)

	1916 Easter Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1916, the English had not grasped the fact that for two centuries - since the brutal smashing of the old Irish governing class and the theft of their lands-it was precisely these people, Grattan, Tone, Parnell and so on, who had led the Irish in their longing to be free of alien rule.
		After the Rising, the political leadership of those hostile to British rule in Ireland passed to the Sinn Fein, while those who fought in Easter week became the nucleus of' the Irish Republican Army.
		It was then hoped that one of three things might happen: the country might rise in sympathy; the British might realise the ultimate impossibility of controlling Ireland and pull out; and last and faintest of hopes, the Germans might somehow come to the rescue of the rebels.
	users.bigpond.net.au /kirwilli/1916 (4875 words)

	1916 Easter Rising
		The rising has been called a poets' insurrection, but poetic vision did not exclude the ability to plan and organise a great adventure and carry it though in the face of difficulties that brought it, at the outset, almost to the brink of disaster.
		Up to July 1916, the Military Council had no control over the Irish Citizen Army, and they were gravely perturbed by Connolly's apparent intention to strike along with his 200 men, an event, which would have been disastrous to their plans.
		The circumstances of his "disappearance" in January 1916, are still obscure but there is little doubt that on that occasion they took him into their counsels and disclosed their intentions to him..
	www.iol.ie /~dluby/1916.htm (4314 words)

	BBC - Northern Ireland - Ask Events - Ask about the 1916 Easter Rising
		The rising is closely identified with Patrick Pearse, who became almost to be its symbol, but the key figures in organising the Rising were Thomas Clarke, and his much younger close associate Sean McDermott.
		It sent on the 9th of April, 1916, 20 thousand ex-Russian rifles, which were to have been landed on the West Coast of Ireland at Fenit Pier.
		Differences might be that with provisional violence much of it was directed against civilians and their property, at Easter 1916, the leadership was sensitive to civilian losses, this was a major factor in calling off the Rising.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/talkni/ask_easter_1916.shtml (1584 words)

	1916 Rising Page
		At the time of the 1867 rising the membership of the IRB was estimated at over 80,000.
		PLANS FOR THE RISING Thomas Clarke was the main instigator of the rising, supported by Pearse, Se?n Mac Diarmada, Eamonn Ceant and Se?n T. O Ceallaigh who went to America for further assistance.
		EFFECTS OF THE REBELLION The rising was critical in terms of the overall fight for an Irish Republic.
	www.aoh61.com /history/ir1916.htm (2275 words)

	various artists, Songs of Ireland's 1916 Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While some songs do not deal directly with the Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish rebels seized control of the GPO in Dublin, they all share the theme of Irish liberty.
		The Easter Rising is of course the pinnacle of events leading to the creation of the Irish Republic.
		In the Rising's aftermath, 3,430 Irish men and 79 Irish women were arrested; 1,836 men and five women were deported to England and imprisoned.
	www.rambles.net /va_1916rising.html (413 words)

	Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 by Doubleday
		Rebels is wonderful book, encompassing the years leading up to the Rising, the events of the Rising, and the executions after the failed Rising.
		Some have criticised it for adopting a novelized approach, with plenty of dialogue, but as popular history, the result is a suspenseful buildup to the Great Easter Rising of 1916, and its brutal extermination by the British Army.
		But the Rising of 1916 was not in vain.
	www.negative-procreative.biz /stuff-0385267525.html (811 words)

	Department of the Taoiseach - The 1916 Rising
		The events of 1916 must be viewed against the backdrop of the broader nationalist movement, the convictions of those who opposed any weakening of the link with the Crown and the momentous events being played out on the battlefields of Europe in one of the bloodiest conflicts that the world had ever seen.
		It was against this backdrop that the 1916 Rising was organised.
		The 1916 Rising was a seminal event led by men and women who held aspirations of a different type of Ireland, one which would guarantee religious and civil liberty and would pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation, and all of its parts.
	taoiseach.gov.ie /index.asp?docID=2520 (1542 words)

	1916 Easter Rising
		The Easter Rising was a complete failure, which left large parts of Dublin in ruins; yet without it Ireland might never have been free of English rule.
		In 1916, the English had not grasped the fact that for two centuries - since the brutal smashing of the old Irish governing class and the theft of their lands-it was precisely these people, Grattan, Tone, Parnell and so on, who had led the Irish in their longing to be free of alien rule.
		It was then hoped that one of three things might happen: the country might rise in sympathy; the British might realise the ultimate impossibility of controlling Ireland and pull out; and last and faintest of hopes, the Germans might somehow come to the rescue of the rebels.
	www.users.bigpond.net.au /kirwilli/1916 (4875 words)

	RTE News - Ahern opens 1916 Rising exhibition
		Speaking at the opening of a new exhibition on 1916 in Collins Barracks, Bertie Ahern rejected suggestions that the parade could be seen as pro-IRA.
		The 1916 exhibition looks at the main events of Easter week, as well as the wider historical context, from the Dublin Lockout of 1913, through to the end of the Civil War in 1923.
		Mr Ahern also said next Sunday's commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising will be an expression of the country's pride at its achievements and a celebration of its egalitarian ideals.
	www.rte.ie /news/2006/0409/1916.html?rss (357 words)

	Easter Rising - 1916
		Before the rising he knew they were doomed to failure and had once remarked that they were all going to be "slaughtered".
		In the 1916 Easter Rising he fought in Jacob’s factory, Bishop Street for which he was court-martialled, sentenced to death, and executed 4 May 1916.
		In the 1916 Rising he commanded the garrison at Watkin’s brewery, Ardee Street, moving to Jameson’s distillery as the fighting increased for which he was court martialled, sentenced to death, and shot in Kilmainham Jail 8 May 1916.
	www.rootsweb.com /~fianna/history/east1916.html (7117 words)

	Easter Rising 1916
		The years preceding the 1916 Rising were marked by the rise of a number of key organisations which would all play a part in the fight for Irish Independence.
		The 1916 Rising was planned for Easter Monday 1916 by the Military Council of the IRB.
		The immediate attitude of the Irish public towards the Rising was one of anger, at the lives lost and damage done.
	homepage.eircom.net /~tipperaryfame/rising16.htm (864 words)

	Easter Rising 1916 Ireland
		The passage of the National Service Act in January 1916 which threatened conscription in Ireland was one of the causes of the Easter Rising.
		The 1916 Rising represented the first major demonstration of force since the United Irishmen Rising of 1798.
		Afterward, general incompetence on the part of the British government, and the arrests of thousands of men, some of who were taken to England, only served to arouse hatred for the English among the population.
	www.easter1916.net (2205 words)

	The 1916 Irish Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In this supreme hour the Irish nation must, by its valor and discipline and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the common good, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.
		The plans for the rising were born in the little tobacconist shop in Parnell Street run by he and his wife.
		The second under Thomas MacDonough, a signatory to the Proclamation and the chief tactician of the Rising, was to defend the southern approach to the city centre at Jacob's Biscuit Factory.
	www.patflannery.com /IrishHistory/1916Rising.htm (4456 words)

	The Observer \| Politics \| Thousands set to celebrate 1916 Rising
		More than 100,000 people are expected to attend the 90th anniversary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin today, an event widely seen as an extravagant dress rehearsal for the centenary celebrations in 10 years' time.
		It is the first time in more than 30 years that the Rising has been celebrated with an official state ceremony of this nature and many critics have questioned the relevance of a military display to 21st century Ireland.
		Four hundred relatives of those executed or killed in 1916 will be the state's guests of honour on the review stand outside the city's General Post Office, where many of the key events of the Rising took place.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,,1754841,00.html (450 words)

	1916 Easter Rising Dublin
		In a report written in June 1916 to the then Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, the permanent secretary to the Home Department, Sir Edward Troup, observed that the source of "mischief" was the military order not to take prisoners.
		A War Office document from June 1916, marked "very confidential", written by Sir Edward Troup, who was permanent secretary to the Home Department, for the British prime minister, Herbert Asquith, refers to several cases of civilians shot by British soldiers during the Easter Rising in Dublin.
		Asquith had given an undertaking to provide relatives of Irish "rebels" who had been shot with a copy of courts-martial proceedings, and when he was replaced as prime minister by David Lloyd George at the end of 1916 efforts were still being made to resist publishing details of the courts-martial.
	www.irishroots.org /aoh/easter.htm (1027 words)

	INA/Irish History 1916 Rising
		But when a German freighter was caught by a British naval patrol and scuttled itself with twenty thousand riffles destined for the Volunteers, and Roger Casement, who had negotiated the deal with the Germans, was captured, MacNeill issued a countermanding directive calling off any action.
		The leaders knew their rising was bound to fail, but they were prepared to batter their lives against the possibility of their dreams of a united Irish republic coming true after their personal sacrifice in blood.
		Pearse said of himself and Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunket at the start of the rising, "If we do nothing else we shall rid Ireland of three bad poets." They met their ends without regret, each making a last statement of defiance, even joy, as they faced their deaths.
	www.inac.org /irishhistory/1916.php (1597 words)

	The Easter Rising 1916
		On 24 April 1916, Patrick Pearse stood outside the General Post Office in Dublin and read a proclamation announcing the establishment of an Irish republic under a provisional government.
		Realising that a rising was doomed to failure, he cancelled all Volunteer manoeuvres.
		Despite this setback, and knowing that their forces would be limited to a modest number of Dublin Volunteers as well as the ICA, Pearse and Connolly decided that a rising must take place, if only as a 'blood sacrifice' to arouse the Irish people.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/events/dates/easter.shtm (351 words)

	Cuimhneachán 1916: RTÉ Libraries and Archives
		In devising prepared programmes, the broadcasters had to cater for both an older generation who remembered the Rising and the history that followed, and a younger group, perhaps by that time a majority, who needed to have the historical events described to them.
		Throughout 1966, programmes on the subject of the 1916 Rising, as well as the historical background, were shown.
		On Radio Éireann, the subject of the 1966 Thomas Davis Lecture Series was "Leaders and Men of the Rising", and a series of thirteen historical radio plays traced the nationalist movement from the coming of the Normans to the Rising of 1916.
	www.rte.ie /laweb/ll/ll_t06_main.html (466 words)

	Ireland's OWN History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Connolly knew the Rising was a gesture, but the longer the gesture went on, the longer Irish patriots were seen to be fighting the might of the British Empire, the greater the rebels' chance of winning the hearts and minds of the Irish people.
		By 4 pm on Friday, the roof of the GPO was on fire and the Volunteers were forced to evacuate.
		Vladimir Lenin on the Easter Rising of 1916
	irelandsown.net /easterrising.html (1891 words)

	1916 Rising medal
		Such as his reputation for ferocity that his foes were afraid to approach, until a raven lighting on his shoulder indicated he was truly dead.
		The disparity in numbers may be explained by the fact that isolated rural units of the Volunteers carried out sporadic attacks against the Crown forces and the participants were deemed to have taken place in the Rising and were declared eligible to receive the medal.
		The 1916 medal was issued un-named but some of the recipients had their names engraved privately on the back in a variety of scripts and styles.
	www.irishmedals.com /1916.html (430 words)

	MORGAN ATTENDS NATIONAL 1916 RISING COMMEMORATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Speaking after he attended the National 1916 Rising Commemoration at Arbour Hill in Dublin at the invitation of the Irish Government,
		I am truly honoured to be the first ever Lord Mayor of Belfast to attend this national event which commemorates the sacrifice of those who were executed for their part in the 1916 Rising.
		As Lord Mayor, I have strived to be a Lord Mayor for all of the citizens of this city and it is only right to acknowledge those from the city of Belfast who participated in those historic events of Easter Week in this way.
	www.sdlp.ie /prmorganattendseaster1916commemoration.shtm (269 words)

	::The 1916 Easter Rising::
		The Easter Uprising took place in April 1916 in Dublin and is one of the pivotal events in modern Irish history.
		At the end of the Easter Uprising, 15 men identified as leaders were executed at Kilmainham Jail.
		In April 1916, the war in Europe was not going well for the British and French.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /1916_easter_rising.htm (1747 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Dublin commemorates Easter Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wreaths have been laid and a minute's silence was held in commemoration of all civilian and military personnel, including the British, killed in 1916.
		Mr Ahern laid a wreath in Kilmainham Jail as a mark of respect to the men executed after the revolt.
		The 1916 Easter Rising saw Irish rebels attempt to seize the capital from British imperial forces.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/4913914.stm (312 words)

	Irish 1916 Easter Rising ~ War for Independence -
		It was early in 1914 that the Carsonite Volunteers, along with the help of British sympathizers in high places, ran a big cargo of arms ashore at Larne.
		We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasibleIn every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to National freedom and sovereignty; six times during the past three hundred years they have asserted it in arms.
		The British were wholly unprepared since they had believed that the Volunteers had abandoned the project, the British authorities were taken by surprise and could not immediately muster sufficient forces to attack the insurgents before they had "dug themselves in".
	home.fiac.net /marshaw/1916.htm (2639 words)

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