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	Easter Rising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach na Cásca) was a militarily unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916.
		The rebellion marked the most famous attempt by militant republicans to demonstratively force independence from the United Kingdom.
		Easter Proclamation, read by Pádraig Pearse outside the GPO at the start of the Easter Rising, 1916.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Easter_Rebellion (1956 words)

	Search Results for "Easter"
		Easter, [A.S. Eastre, name of a spring goddess], chief Christian feast, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion.
		Easter An important religious festival among Christians; it commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus after his Crucifixion.
		Easter is celebrated on a Sunday in spring,...
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	Rebellion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may therefore be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors from civil disobedience to a violent organized attempt to destroy established authority.
		For example, the Boxer rebellion was an uprising against Western commercial and political influence in China during the final years of the 19th century, and the Jacobite Risings which attempted to restore the deposed Stuart kings to the thrones of England and Scotland were called the Jacobite Rebellions by the government.
		A violent rebellion is sometimes referred to as an insurgency while a larger one may escalate into a civil war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rebellion (391 words)

	MSN Encarta - Easter Rebellion
		Easter Rebellion, armed uprising of Irish nationalists against the rule of Great Britain in Ireland.
		Shortly after these initial successes, the leaders of the rebellion proclaimed the independence of Ireland and announced the establishment of a provisional government of the Irish Republic.
		The uprising was the first of a series of events that culminated in the establishment of the Irish Free State (predecessor of the Ireland) in 1921.
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	Easter Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Easter Rising (Irish: Éirí Amach Na Casca) was an unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916.
		Shortly after the outbreak of World War I on August 4, 1914, the Supreme Council of the IRB met and, under the prevailing belief that “England’s difficulty is Ireland’s opportunity”, decided to take action sometime before the conclusion of the war.
		Current taoiseach (prime minister) and leader of de Valera's Fianna Fáil, Bertie Ahern has publicly dated Irish independence not to 1916 (or 1919 and the First Dáil) but to 1922, when the Irish Free State came into being as a result of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed between Irish delegates and the British government in 1921.
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	Overall Significance
		Yeats memorializes the individuals who sacrificed their lives in the Easter Rebellion as a tribute their ability to transform themselves and the history of Ireland.
		Through rebellion against the established ruling class, Yeats establishes that the people of Ireland have asserted their independence and identity in order to procure their coming of age.
		Yeats refers to the significant figures of the Easter Rebellion to suggest that all Irishmen have the ability and the responsibility to evoke change.
	home.wlu.edu /~connerm/ENG105A01/Group2/overall_significance.htm (590 words)

	A Terrible Beauty Is Born: The Easter Rebellion of 1916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The willingness of the Rebellion’s leaders to sacrifice their lives for what they believed to be the glory of Ireland coupled with the British military’s eagerness to extinguish their spirit with shotguns aroused the Irish nation and gave it a new vision.
		After this retreat, the GPO was left in relative peace for the remainder of Easter Monday with the exception of the looting which followed the evacuation of constables from downtown Dublin.
		In this way, the leaders of the Easter Rebellion of 1916 were successful in scoring a symbolic victory, one that awakened the Irish and propelled them toward national independence.
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	1916 Easter Rising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		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.
		Until Easter Week 1916 the active members of the IRB were fully occupied in mounting this revolution.
		He was to bring the weapons for the Easter Rising that the IRB had agreed on.
	www.users.bigpond.com /kirwilli/1916 (4875 words)

	The Militant - June 30, 2003 -- The 1916 Easter rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the Easter Rebellion was crushed, it inspired a rising tide of struggle in Ireland.
		Eamon De Valera, a surviving veteran of the Easter Rebellion, later became president of the formally independent Irish Free State.
		At the time of the Easter Rebellion, the minority left wing in the international Socialist movement—those who opposed calling a truce with the exploiters in the class struggle and supporting the imperialist rulers in the war—was debating what policy to adopt toward the fight by oppressed nations for the right to self-determination.
	www.themilitant.com /2003/6722/672211.html (397 words)

	Ireland 32
		The 1916 Easter Rebellion spoke to the heart of Irish nationalism and emerged to dominate nationalist accounts of the origin and evolution of the Irish State.
		The most famous reaction to the Rising is the poem "Easter 1916" by the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats.
		Like their predecessors in the rebellions of 1848 and 1867, the sixteen rebel leaders in the 1916 Rising emerged from the intellectual and literary community, including promising writers and poets.
	www.gmu.edu /org/ireland32/1916_essay.html (1782 words)

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		Easter Rising, also called EASTER REBELLION (1916), republican insurrection in Ireland against British government there, which began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin.
		British troops soon arrived to put down the rebellion, and for nearly a week Dublin was paralyzed by street fighting.
		Pearse and 14 other leaders of the rebellion were court-martialed and executed by the British authorities in the weeks that followed.
	www.bennetyee.org /ucsd-pages/easter.uprising.1.txt (407 words)

	Easter Rebellion - XYZ Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Easter Rebellion, which began on Monday, April 14, 1916, was a defining event in the history …
		The 1916 Easter Rebellion in Ireland and its consequences.
		… The Easter Rebellion, was an armed uprising of Irish nationalists against … the Easter Rebellion, an uprising of Irish nationalists on Easter Monday, …
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	INA/Irish History 1916 Rising
		The speech and the reaction it received was to be a turning point for those seeking to establish the revolutionary fervor necessary to galvanize the spirits of those who were soon to challenge in arms the might of the British army.
		It was a leisurely Easter Monday, a bank holiday, and the people in the streets paid little notice as scantily armed units of Volunteers and Citizen Army deployed to take on an empire.
		MacNeill was persuaded at first to go along with nationwide "maneuvers" on Easter Monday, which was in reality to be the call for an armed rising against British rule.
	inac.org /irishhistory/1916.php (1597 words)

	Legislator Schroeder speaks at Breakfast Commemorating the Easter Rebellion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Easter, at the Buffalo Irish Center's Easter Commemorative Breakfast, Erie County Legislator Mark Schroeder discussed the events leading up to the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
		But it was the Easter rebellion that led to the liberation of the southern 26 Irish counties five years later.
		"The Easter Rebellion was one of the most significant events in all of Irish history," said Jack Fecio, President of the United Irish American Association of Erie County.
	www.erie.gov /legislature/district02/district02_news041504.asp (470 words)

	Easter 1916
		The purpose of the rebellion was the withdrawal of Ireland from the United Kingdom and the creation of an Irish Free State.
		The arrest of Roger Casement and the lack of sufficient ammunitions prompted the nationwide rebellion to be called off.
		The four are not mentioned by name, but their identity is obvious and would have been obvious to the reader at the time.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~sschreib/autumn_02/investigations/Easter1916.html (1066 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.
		But on Easter Monday, shortly after noon, the Irish Republic was proclaimed in Dublin, and the insurgent Tricolour suddenly broke upon startled eyes flying from the flagstaff above the General Post Office in the very heart of the Irish capital.
		On the morning of Easter Monday, April 24th 1916, the Dublin battalions paraded, bearing full arms and one days rations.
	home.fiac.net /marshaw/1916.htm (2639 words)

	Stanzas Two and Three
		Yeats implies that the figures of the Easter Rebellion should be respected for their participation in an event that will evoke change in Ireland.
		Yeats conveys the imagery of imperfect figures as heroes to emphasize this change that has effected the lives of martyrs of the Easter Rebellion and the citizens of Ireland as a nation.
		Evaluated on their individual merits, the participants of the Easter Rebellion are one of many insignificant figures shouting to be heard until their "voice grew shrill"(20).
	home.wlu.edu /~connerm/ENG105A01/Group2/stanzas_two_and_three.htm (534 words)

	Easter Rebellion on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Easter Rebellion resonates throughout Ireland to this day.(News)
		Rewriting Bloody Easter - The year leading to Ireland's uprising against British rule and an account of the failed rebellion take on new dimensions in Jamie O'Neill's rich and absorbing novel.(Book Review)
		"Democracy is not negotiable": a determined president moves to quell a barracks rebellion.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-e1asterr1e.asp (331 words)

	A Critique of Patrick Pearse: Irish Rebel" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The strongest part of the paper includes the discussion on Pearse's role in the Easter rebellion of 1916.
		Additionally, Michael Collins is mentioned in the paper as the founder of the Irish Republican Army after the rebellion, but the relationship between Patrick Pearse and Collins is not explored in the paper.
		The prevailing British feeling about Pearse and his revolutionary counterparts is not explored in the author's discussion of Pearse and the Easter rebellion of 1916.
	www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/ilv/crit/pearsecrit.htm (633 words)

	BBC News \| History \| 1910-16: The 'winning' of Home Rule to the Easter Rebellion
		Easter Rising About 1,000 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army seize key buildings in Dublin on Easter Monday, April 24.
		Casement executed The total of executions from the Easter Rising ends at 16 when Sir Roger Casement, who tried to import weapons for the rebellion from Germany, is hanged in England in August.
		Christmas amnesty All those interned as a result of the Easter rebellion are released, including future IRA leader Michael Collins.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/northern_ireland/history/299118.stm (648 words)

	Easter 1916 Focus Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the British put down the rebellion (this occured during World War I, and the British were in no mood for Irish insurrection), nearly all of the leaders, and all of the signatories of the proclamation, were executed.
		The three poets explore the justifications or effects of war from three different temporal positions: Pearse preceding rebellion, Owen during WWI, and Yeats after the Easter 1916 rebellion.
		"Easter 1916" is another work about transformation; as Yeats writes, "All changed, changed utterly:/ A terrible beauty is born." Try to identify what has transformed, according to Yeats in this poem, and also identity the terrible beauty--what is it that gets born in the wake of Easter 1916?
	www.public.asu.edu /~jacquies/easter1916.htm (239 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Easter Rebellion
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	Ireland - becoming a free state
		The Easter Rebellion, was an armed uprising of Irish nationalists against the rule of Great Britain in Ireland.
		The uprising occurred on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, and centred mainly in Dublin.
		On Easter Monday, April 18, 1949, by the terms of the Republic of Ireland Bill approved by the Dáil in November 1948, Éire became the Republic of Ireland, formally free of allegiance to the British crown and the Commonwealth of Nations.
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	Easter Rising Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		In 1921 Jan Smuts a leading South African statesman and soldier was able to bring this example to the notice of the British Prime Minster David Lloyd George and it helped to persuade the British Government to compromise when negotiating the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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	Easter Rebellion of 1916
		On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a force of Irishmen under arms estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500 men and women attempted to seize Dublin, with the ultimate intention of destroying British rule in Ireland and creating an entirely independent Irish Republic to include all 32 counties of Leinster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught.
		The 1641 rebellion had induced a siege mentality which was reinforced during the struggle between William of Orange and James II.
		Patrick Pearse was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916.
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	Easter Rising - 1916
		During Easter Week he was in charge of the garrison in the South Dublin Union.
		On Thursday of Easter Week, there was some confusion and after many hours of heavy bombardment a mistaken order to retreat was circulated among the troops.
		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.
	www.rootsweb.com /~fianna/history/east1916.html (7117 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Steve Weissman \| Mr. Bush and His Easter Rebellion
		Those who refuse "the truth" must be wicked, willful, or somehow uninstructed, and become the target of fervid evangelism, whether with soothing words or avenging fire.
		I send greetings to all those celebrating Easter, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
		Bush's Easter antics as merely pandering to or emboldening his supporters on the religious right.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/032705A.shtml (618 words)

	Ireland: In Depth : History : The Easter Rebellion & the War of Independence \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Easter Rebellion & the War of Independence
		The motive had been there for centuries, the ability was in development, and the opportunity was around the corner.
		On Easter Monday 1916, the Irish tricolor flag was raised over the General Post Office in the heart of Dublin.
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