Independence & After · event 2 of 15

3 May 1916

The executions at Kilmainham. Fifteen leaders are shot by firing squad over ten days, one at a time. James Connolly, unable to stand, is tied to a chair. The drip of executions turns public opinion decisively, and within two years Sinn Féin sweeps the general election.

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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