Easter Rising
Britishnoun
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He provides sharp observations on the Easter Rising of 1916, the war for independence and the civil war of the early 1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
At the time of the Easter Rising in 1916 the rebels were seen as reckless fringe lunatics and they had negligible popular support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
A maths teacher by profession, he fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and rose to prominence shortly afterwards as the rebellion's only surviving commandant.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2021
“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born,” Yeats wrote in 1916 in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Dublin, a six-day rebellion against British rule in Ireland.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Still, though recruiting slackened, the cause of the Allies remained in Ireland the popular cause and the Easter Rising was the work only of a handful of men.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
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