Beginning of the Easter Rising

Date: April 24, 1916 • Location: London, United Kingdom

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1916.

Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.

Irish republicanism is the political movement which advocates the establishment of an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Throughout its centuries of existence, it has encompassed various tactics and identities, simultaneously elective and militant, and has been both widely supported and marginalized. One of its founding figures was Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798).