Easter 1916: The Rising in Dublin

Easter 1916 in Dublin: an introduction to the Rising of 24–29 April and a guide to the eyewitness accounts and memoirs of Easter Week held on this site.

The Rising

The Easter Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, when members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, joined by women of Cumann na mBan, occupied the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street) and other positions around the city. Outside the GPO, Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, which had been signed by seven leaders of the Rising. Fighting continued for almost a week, and much of lower Sackville Street was destroyed by fire and shelling. Pearse agreed to an unconditional surrender on 29 April. Fifteen men were executed in May 1916, fourteen of them at Kilmainham Gaol, and the executions contributed to a marked shift in public opinion in the years that followed.

First-hand accounts on this site

The Accounts of the Easter Rising collection, introduced on its index page, brings together contemporary and personal records of the week. They include Countess Markievicz on the activities of women in Easter Week, the story of Nora O’Daly and Cumann na mBan in Stephen’s Green, Miss Lilly Stokes’ diary of Easter Week, an account first printed in the Preston Herald in May 1916 (Some holiday - living through the Rising) and a view from inside Trinity College. Margaret Skinnider’s memories of 1916 and T.M. Healy’s chapter on the Easter “Rising” add further perspectives, and the Chronology of Dublin, 1900–2000 places the Rising in the longer history of the city.

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