The proclamation read by Pádraig Pearse at the beginning of the Easter Rising Easter Monday 1916. Rebel forces, determined to overthrow British rule in Ireland, storm key locations in Dublin.

Irishmen and Irishwomen: In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes ...

Last month, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin for a parade to mark the Easter Rising's centenary. The 1916 Proclamation was then read out by an officer from the Irish ...

The 1916 Proclamation was read from the steps of the GPO on Sackville (now O’Connell) Street on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, by Pádraig Pearse, a leader of the Easter Rising and one of the ...

“The Proclamation set out the stand and the ... from their country,” said John Sullivan, a member of the Easter Rising Monument Committee. “It is quite a document.” An informal dedication ...

Like many efforts before it, the Easter Rising of 1916 failed miserably ... read to curious onlookers the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, which declared Ireland a free and independent nation.

It was the Easter Rising that brought republicanism from ... the accusation that they had failed to live up to the ideals of the Proclamation was increasingly voiced. Independence did not deliver ...

The Easter Rising has begun. Just hours later ... three of the rebellion's leaders step outside and produce a proclamation which declares an Irish republic. It is read aloud by Pádraig Pearse.

“The Proclamation set out the stand and the ... from their country,” said John Sullivan, a member of the Easter Rising Monument Committee. “It is quite a document.” An informal dedication ...

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