96th anniversary of the boys rising up to knock the Pome boot off their necks...
"...Members of the Irish Volunteersjoined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBanseized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Britain. There were some minor actions in other parts of Ireland...The Rising was suppressed after seven days of fighting, and its leaders were court-martialled and executed, but it succeeded in bringing physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics."
"...Members of the Irish Volunteersjoined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBanseized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Britain. There were some minor actions in other parts of Ireland...The Rising was suppressed after seven days of fighting, and its leaders were court-martialled and executed, but it succeeded in bringing physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics."