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| | Hell's Kitchen: Dublin, Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 |
 | | On April 24, 1916, Easter Monday, 1,700 men, and not a few women, set out from their homes, businesses, and farms "to take what (the British) would not give," in the words of Patrick Pearse, that is, control of Ireland to the Irish people. |
 | | Read our story of the Easter Rising: Dublin, Easter Monday, 1916: 1,700 Take On the British Empire and follow the events of that eventful week on our Dates page. |
 | | Easter Monday: Irish Volunteer units and the Irish Citizen Army, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, began their famous Easter rising, seizing the General Post Office (GPO) and several other key locations around Dublin. |
| www.thewildgeese.com /blogs/2006/04/dublin-easter-monday-april-24-1916.html (771 words) |
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