1916 Easter facts
While investigating facts about 1916 Easter, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Female rebels were literally airbrushed out of history. The famous 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion picture of Pearse surrendering was altered to exclude the heroic Elizabeth O’Farrell.
During the 1916 Easter Rising 17 Irish volunteers armed with rifles and handguns were responsible for 240 British casualties, two thirds of their total casualties during the Rising.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 9 of the best facts about 1916 Easter I managed to collect.
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Opposing forces fighting in St. Stephen's Green during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin had a daily hour-long cease-fire to allow the park keeper to feed his ducks.
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Roger Casement. He authored the 1904 Casement Report investigating atrocities in the Belgian Congo rubber plantations and was knighted for similar efforts in Peru. He was executed for his involvement in the Easter Rising of 1916 which precipitated the creation of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Éamon de Valera was the only Irish leader of the 1916 Easter Rising the British did not execute, because he was possibly a US citizen and no one had heard of him. In 1917 he became Sinn Féin head and in 1919 the country's leader, and was for 21 years prime minister and 14 years president.
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The horrifyingly bloody history of Conor McGregor's Walkout song and how it depicts the massacre of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin
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After attempting to stop the 1916 Easter Rising from taking place, thinking it would only lead to defeat, The O'Rahilly proclaimed after rejoining other volunteers: "Well, I've helped to wind the clock - I might as well hear it strike!"
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James Connolly, commander-in-chief of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, was Scottish.
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Constance Markievicz was sentenced to "death by being shot" after Ireland's 1916 Easter Rebellion, but was spared "solely and only on account of her sex." Her sentence was reduced to life, but she was released after a year. She became Minister of Labour and the first woman elected to Parliament.
