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
About 200 people attended the Easter Rising 1916 commemoration parade in the Creggan estate on Monday.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2023
Yeats’ poem is his meditation on the Easter Rising, which saw Irish rebels declare an Irish Republic and then occupy Dublin’s General Post Office and other key buildings in the city.
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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