The General Post Office, or GPO, stands proudly on O'Connell Street as a symbol of Irish nationalism. During the 1916 Easter Rising, it served as the headquarters for the leaders of the rebellion, who ...

Their importance to the social and political life of the country was as extraordinary as the expansion of Ireland’s newspaper ... to and following the Easter Rising of 1916, remained significant.

aided by the landing of large cargo of arms from Germany on Ireland’s west coast. The date the conspirators fixed upon for the rebellion was Easter Sunday 1916, when, on Pearse’s command, all ...

While the tricolor had gained traction as a symbol for Ireland until the 1916 Easter Rising ... During the Rising, both flags were flown above the GPO, the headquarters of the rebels, and ...

Their action - violent, daring, impossibly romantic - would change the majority of Irish public opinion radically towards demands for full independence and push Northern Ireland's Unionists ...

Surprising Ireland’s British rulers — who waved away warning signals — the rising began on Easter Monday, April 24 1916 ... in the subjection of Labour all over the world. That is the internationality ...