The leaders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) began planning an uprising in Ireland after World War I began. They formed a military council to organize the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Though their plans were kept secret, British intelligence arrested Roger Casement as he arrived from Germany with weapons. The Rising began as planned on Easter Monday but was confined to Dublin due to the Volunteers leader calling it off. After heavy fighting that destroyed parts of Dublin, the rebels surrendered unconditionally.

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1916 Rising

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IRB plan the rising
• Leaders of the IRB began to plan for a rising
after the start of world war one believing that
England's Difficulty was Ireland opportunity.
• They formed a military council made up of
Thomas Clarke, Sean McDermott, Patrick
Pearse, Joseph Plunkett, Éamon Ceannt and
Thomas McDonagh.

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Secret plans
• Their plans were kept secret and in January 1916
they planned the rising for Easter 1916.
• They persuaded James Connolly and the
Citizens Army to join the rising.
• They needed arms so they sent Roger casement
to Germany for weapons. The Germans gave
20,000 rifles ten machine guns and ammunition
and these were loaded aboard the Aud.

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IRB use the Volunteers for manpower
• The IRB needed the volunteers for manpower.
• The leader of the Volunteers Eoin McNeill who
was against a rising believing that the Irish
people wouldn't be supportive.
• He would only order the volunteers to rebel if
they were attacked first or if conscriptions was
introduced.
• IRB kept him in the dark and forged the ‘castle
document’ which said that the government was
going to disarm the volunteers.

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Casement arrested on Barna strand
• Because of this McNeill allowed the volunteers
to do training exercises on Easter Sunday.
• Planned to give the new arms to the volunteers
whist they were drilling and the rising would be
nationwide
• Roger Casement was caught landing by German
Submarine on Barna strand on the coast of
Kerry and the Aud was Scuttled with its cargo.

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McNeill discovers its a forgery
• McNeill finds out that the ‘Castle document’ is a forgery
and calls off the manoeuvres by placing an
advertisement in the Irish Independent.
• However the rising goes ahead on Easter Monday and is
confined to Dublin and has no hope of success.
• 15,00 volunteers and Citizen army take over major
buildings in the City centre including the GPO where
they read out the Proclamation of the Irish republic.
• Jacobs’s factory, Boland's Mill and the four courts are
taken but they fail to capture Dublin castle.
• There are no Lines of communication between all these
locations.

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Swift response.
• British reinforcements cordon off the city.
• Artillery and a gun boat the Helga is brought up
the liffey and shells the GPO.
• City centre is ruins widespread looting Pearse
orders a unconditional surrender, the blood
sacrifice for the republic was achieved for him.

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Aftermath
• 500 people killed, 2,500 injured 130 British
soldiers killed 64 Volunteers, 300 civilians
• Initially the Public abused the leaders as they
taken away.
• Public attitudes change after internment of
innocent people and the execution of the leaders.
• Martial law military in control and 2000
interned
• Sinn Fein led by Arthur Griffith gain popularity
even though they are not involved in the rising.

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Eden Quay 1916

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O'Connell street 1916

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GPO 1916

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A British tank batters down a door in house-to-house searches during
the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty

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