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What is the Easter Sunday Uprising? |
An armed insurrection that took place during Easter Week 1916 in Dublin. Invoked by the IRB to end British rule and achieve Irish independence. |
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What were the causes of the Easter Sunday Uprising? |
As the support for the British rule over Ireland declined, protest about freeing up Ireland intensified. However, these protest presented to London seemingly fell on deaf ears and so the IRB decided that Irish independence would have to be fought for- hence the armed uprising. The uprising was also a way for the IRB to show London how serious they were about independence and to capture their attention. |
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How did the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) take advantage of Britain's involvement in World War 1 to stage the uprising? |
As early as August 1914, the month war was declared, the IRB decided that the British involvement in the war would give them the opportunity to overthrow British rule in Ireland. Britain's military power was either abroad or being sent abroad to fight. British military presence would be sparse in Ireland. The Germans provided weapons to the IRB to fuel the insurrection. Hence, the IRB conspired with enemy countries against Britain to stage the uprising. |
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What happened in the beginning of the Rising? |
Authorities had only 400 troops to confront roughly 1000 protestors. Therefore their immediate priorities were not to suppress the protestors but to gather reinforcements, information and protect strategic locations. |
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How did the Rising intensified? |
As the week progressed, the fighting in some areas became intense with fierce street battles. Police forces lost 234 men (dead/wounded) while only 5 rebels died. Soldier were known to have killed 15 unarmed men in some instances of military discipline lapses. The pacifist Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, the best known civilian victim of the insurrection, was arrested on the 25th of April and shot by the firing squad next morning without trial. |
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How did the British authorities respond to the Rising? |
By the 28th April, the British reinforcements were speedily sent into the capital, the 1600 rebels (more had joined over the week) were now facing 18000-20000 soldiers. The British authorities was competent with suppressing the Rising. |
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How did the Rising end? |
With vastly superior numbers and artillery, the British army quickly suppressed the Rising by forcing the uprising leaders, based at the Post Office, to first evacuate the building and later to accept the only term on offer- unconditional surrender- which the IRB agreed to on the 29th of April. |
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Aftermaths of the Rising |
The Rising cost 450 people killed, 2614 injured and 9 missing. Military casualties were 116 dead, 268 injured and 9 missing. Police forces had 16 killed and 29 wounded. 64 rebels was killed and a total of 254 civilians died. |
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What were the consequences and fallout of the uprising? |
Although most of the leaders were executed following court-martial, the Rising succeeded in bringing republicanism back to front of Irish politics. Support for republicanism continued to rise in Ireland due to the ongoing war in Europe and the Middle East and revolutions in other countries. Finally, on December 1918, the republicans won a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence. |
