Class Year
2016
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
4-27-2016
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016, Gettysburg College students and faculty gathered in Penn Hall Lyceum to acknowledge the centennial of the Easter Rising. On April 24, 1916, the day after Easter Sunday, an armed rebellion led by Irish Republicans seized the General Post Office and other major buildings in the center of Dublin, and declared a “Republic of Ireland.” Approximately 1,600 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army participated in the six-day rebellion. The Rising was an act to overthrow the British government in Ireland and provoke a full-out revolution. After a week, however, British forces squashed the rebellion and arrested 3,000 people. The following month, fifteen leaders of the Rising were executed. While the Rising did not initially gain support from the Irish public, the ensuing brutality administered by the British in the aftermath of the rebellion spawned public dissent and fueled political unrest and further violence. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Sutter, Meg A., "“A Terrible Beauty is Born”: A Panel on the 1916 Easter Rising" (2016). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 165.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/165
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