Independence & After · event 1 of 15

24 April 1916

The Easter Rising. Around 1,200 volunteers seize buildings across the centre and proclaim a republic from the GPO. Six days of fighting, artillery on Sackville Street, and around 485 dead, more than half of them civilians.

The Independence & After era

  1. 24 April 1916
  2. 3 May 1916
  3. 21 January 1919
  4. 6 December 1921
  5. 16 January 1922
  6. 1932
  7. 1963
  8. 1974
  9. 1979
  10. 1988
  11. 1995
  12. 2008
  13. 2015
  14. 2018
  15. 2020

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