Easter 1916
Inspiring leaders, heroic sacrifices, tragic accidents and bravery under fire; Dublin’s streets still carry the bullet holes that speak of the violent Easter week and Irish politics is still affected by the divisions created in the aftermath.
All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born. WB Yeats, Easter 1916
In the middle of the First World War as tens of thousands of Irishmen from across the divides were dying in France and Belgium about 1,500 militants staged an uprising in the heart of Dublin. This was the culmination of 700 years of failed attempts to break away from Britain. The Dublin Rising too was a failure, roundly condemned at the time. So how did it become celebrated as the foundation of the modern Irish state? With stories from eyewitness testimony and careful research our experienced guides take you to the key sites of the Rising and introduce the main personalities on this 3.5 hour walking tour.
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- The General Post Office
- The House of Lords
- Trinity College Dublin
- St Stephen’s Green
- The Shelbourne Hotel
- Leinster House
- The Battle of Mount Street Bridge
- Boland’s Bakery
- Liberty Hall and the Irish Citizen’s Army
- The looting of O’Connell Street
- The executions of the rebels
- The legacy of the Rising
- Dubliners in the crossfire
