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191624–29 April 1916 · Dublin

Easter Rising

Ruined buildings along Sackville Street, Dublin, after the 1916 Easter Rising
Archival image: Edmond Delrenne (National Gallery of Ireland). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Irish republicans seized the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic while Britain was at war. The British army crushed the rising in six days, shelling the city centre. The execution of its leaders, fourteen of them in Kilmainham Gaol, turned public opinion and led to the War of Independence and an Irish state in 1922.

Sites

  1. Site 1: General Post Office, O'Connell StreetRebel headquarters, with bullet marks on the columns and a visitor centre.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Kilmainham GaolThe stonebreakers' yard where the leaders were shot.Map ↗

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