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
Even in a world after 1916’s Easter Rising — when Irish nationalists revolted against British rule— governmental efforts to revive Irish proved futile.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
Other items in the police and military-themed sale at Bloomfield Auctions include a service medal from the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin complete with its original box.
From BBC • Sep. 28, 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
In due course the Easter Rising took place, and by a blood-sacrifice Ireland once more claimed the rights which, she had been assured, were being enforced on the battlefields of Europe.
From The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin by Boyd, Ernest Augustus
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