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1 giorno fa · It was part of the Irish revolutionary period. In April 1916, Irish republicans launched the Easter Rising against British rule and proclaimed an Irish Republic. Although it was defeated after a week of fighting, the Rising and the British response led to greater popular support for Irish independence.
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5 giorni fa · The IRB and the 1918 election. By John O’Beirne Ranelagh. An adapted extract from his new book ‘The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914-1924’. Without the IRB, there would not have been a Rising in 1916, or an IRA, let alone a War of Independence.
1 giorno fa · A secret revolutionary society named for the Fianna, an Irish armed force of legendary times, it aimed at securing Ireland’s independence by exploiting every opportunity to injure British interests and, ultimately, to break the British connection.
1 giorno fa · Issue containing contributions by James Connolly, Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Mary Plunkett, and Padraic Pearse, four of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation.
4 giorni fa · The End of the Civil War (2009, History Channel ): a collection of four separately produced and aired films sold as a single title: Sherman's March (2007), April 1865 (2003), The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth (2007), and Stealing Lincoln's Body (2009).
1 giorno fa · The Egyptian Sinai was reoccupied in 1916, while Palestine and the northern Levant were captured from the Ottoman Empire during 1917 and 1918, before the Armistice of Mudros ended hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre on 31 October.
3 giorni fa · Lily Yeats' bookplate in the volume, and an opening to a passage in which the titular character Jacob briefly contemplates Irish Home Rule (page 226, top paragraph). Creator Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
