Easter Rising 1916, the GPO & Irish Independence
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Easter Rising 1916, the GPO & Irish Independence

The Easter Rising (An Éirí Amach na Cásca — the armed insurrection against British rule that began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin): the Easter Rising (led by Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) and James Connolly (1868-1916) at the head of approximately 1,200 Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army) was the pivotal event of modern Irish history — the Proclamation of the Irish Republic (read by Pearse on the steps of the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street) on April 24, 1916, is the founding document of the Irish state; the Rising was suppressed within a week and its leaders executed, but the executions transformed public opinion and led directly to the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922).

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