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What did the IRB set up and planned to do? |
They set up the Military Council to plan a rising with Patrick Pearse, Sean MacDiarmada and Thomas Clarke |
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Whom were the two people they got help from? |
James Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army
Sir Roger Casement, who got a large quantity of arms from the Germans aboard the Aud |
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Who refused to support the rising? |
Eoin MacNeill and the Irish Volunteers |
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Why did plans go wrong? |
The Aud was seized by the British MacNeill discovered discovered that he was tricked and cancelled all Volunteer support for the rising |
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What buildings were captured by the rebels? |
Boland's Mills, Jacob's Biscuit factory and the GPO |
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Why did people start to support the rising? |
Britain executed the leaders of the rising and put 200 of people in prison without trail, which enraged thousands of people. |
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What did the Rising led to? |
The War of Independence |
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Why did Sinn Féin win the 1918 election? |
Britain called the rising a Sinn Féin rebellion Éamon de Valera became the leader. Sinn Fein helped opposed a controversial conscription |
