Roger David Casement (Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn) was born on 1 September 1864 in Dublin. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the "father of twentieth-century human rights investigations", he was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo... 1/2

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Roger Casement (Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn) was executed by the British on 3 August 1916. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and a leader of the Easter Rising. He was honoured in 1905 for the Casement Report on the Congo and knighted in 1911 for his investigations of human rights abuses in the rubber industry in Peru.

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Rosie Hackett was born on 25 July 1893 in Dublin. She was a nationalist, a trade unionist, and a workers' rights activist. She was only 18 when she led workers at Jacob's Biscuits to strike for better conditions. She went to form the Irish Women Worker's Union with Delia Larkin, Jim Larkin's sister. She took part in the Easter Rising as a nurse.

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Countess Markievicz died on 15 July 1927 in Dublin. A founding member of Fianna Éireann, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she took part in the Easter Rising in 1916. She was sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment on the grounds of her sex. She was the first woman elected to the UK House of Commons. She was elected Minister for Labour in the First Dáil, becoming the first female cabinet minister in Europe.

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Interesting piece about James and Gretta Cousins. According to this, James Cousins wrote a piece about the 1916 Rising; another essay says he wrote a series about the leaders, for Annie Besant's journal, New India. I'd love to read these articles #NewIndia #AnnieBesant #JamesCousins #EasterRising
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irish-diary/2023/07/02/from-belfast-to-india-brian-maye-on-playwright-and-poet-james-cousins/

James Connolly (Séamas Ó Conghaile) was born on 5th June 1868 to Irish parents in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, Connolly left school for working life at the age of 11, and became involved in socialist politics in the 1880s.

He was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. Following the defeat of the rebels he was taken to Kilmainham Gaol and executed by firing squad for his part in its proceedings.

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She argued that, as women were equal with men under the Irish Republic, they had an equal right to risk their lives in the fight for independence. 2/2

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Margaret Skinnider was born in Coatbridge, Scotland on 28th May 1892. She was a revolutionary and feminist who fought during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin as a sniper, among other roles, and was the only female wounded in the action.

‘Scotland is my home, but Ireland my country.’ – Margaret Skinnider 1/2

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#EasterRising Liam Ó Briain, who has just been trekking around the country bringing cancellation notices, finds the Rising starting

On 4 May 1976 Rosie Hackett died. She was a nationalist, a trade unionist, and a workers' rights activist. She was only 18 when she led workers at Jacob's Biscuits to strike for better conditions. She went to form the Irish Women Worker's Union with Delia Larkin, Jim Larkin's sister. She took part in the Easter Rising as a nurse.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #RosieHackett #IrishWomenWorkersUnion #DeliaLarkin #JimLarkin #EasterRising

On 4th May 1916 Edward Daly (Éamonn Ó Dálaigh), Michael O’Hanrahan (Mícheál Ó hAnnracháin), William Pearse (Uilliam Seamus Mac Piarais) (brother of Pádraig Pearse) and Joseph Mary Plunkett (Seosamh Máire Pluincéid) were executed in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterRising #WilliamPearse #PádraigPearse #JosephMaryPlunkett #KilmainhamGaol #Dublin

On 29th April 1916 Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, ‘The O’Rahilly’ (an Ua Rathghaille) died. He was a republican who took part in the Easter Rising. He was killed in a charge on a British machine gun post covering the retreat from the Dublin GPO during the fighting.

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On 29th April 1916 Pádraig Pearse ordered the surrender of the rebels bringing to an end the Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca). Approximately 64 rebels, 132 crown forces, and 230 civilians had been killed. 2,500 people had been wounded and the centre of Dublin had been devastated by the shelling.

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24 de Abril de 1916 los Voluntarios Irlandeses y el Ejército Ciudadano Irlandés toman puntos clave en la ciudad de Dublín y proclaman la independencia de Irlanda del dominio británico en lo que se conocerá como el Levantamiento de Pascua que será disuelto pocos días después. #efemerides #ireland #irlanda #unitedkingdom #reinounido #EasterRising #levantamientodepascua #history #historia #divulgacion

The Easter Rising planned for 22 April 1916 (Easter Saturday) was postponed for two days. The capture of Roger Casement and the scuttling of the Aud which was transporting an estimated 20,000 rifles were some of the reasons for the delay.

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"The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all of the children of the nation equally..."

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107 years ago on Easter Monday, Irish patriots attempted to throw off the yoke of British rule. Their attempt ultimately failed but the Easter Rising sowed the seeds that would lead to the formation of an independent Ireland just a few years later.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcAIIGdpbKc

Easter Rising memorial at Arbor Hill cemetery
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#versethursday #poetry #mastodaoine #easterrising #1916

What a pity Biden won't make it to the GPO ceremony commemorating the Rising https://www.thejournal.ie/biden-visit-confirmed-6037413-Apr2023/ #GPO #JoeBiden #EasterRising