THE EASTER RISING 1916

I.  PREPARING THE RISING.  I.R.B. Military Council, Supreme Council.  Roger Casement (d. 1916); the Aud; Banna ("Lonely Banna Strand"), Co. Kerry; "Black Diaries."

II.  THE RISING.  1777 men and women = 1,558 Irish Volunteers and 219 Irish Citizen Army = Headquarters & Battalions 1-4 of the Volunteers + the ICA. 

III.  THE EASTER MARTYRS.  “Sixteen Dead Men” (Yeats).

Patrick Pearse (1879-1916):  born in Dublin to an English sculptor and an Irish mother; educated by Christian Brothers; called to Irish Bar; joined Gaelic League in 1895; est. 1908 bilingual St. Enda's School; I.R.B. Supreme Council 1913; brother Willie.

Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916):  St. Oliver Plunkett (1625-81), archbishop of Armagh, executed 1681; Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (1854-1932), a Unionist MP; Lord Dunsany, Irish writer.

Eamon Ceannt (Edmund Kent, 1881-1916):  Born at Glenamaddy, Co. Galway; educated by the Christian Brothers at N. Richmond St., Dublin, and UCD; teacher of Gaelic.

Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916):  Born Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, and educated at Rockwell College; schoolteacher at St. Enda's; graduate of UCD; Irish Volunteers 1914, I.R.B. 1915; "They all died well, but MacDonagh died like a prince."

Michael Mallin (1880-1916):  born in Dublin; 14 years in the British Army; silkweaver, tradeunion secretary; joined ICA 1913.

Séan Heuston (1891-1916): born in Dublin; educated by Christian Brothers; railwayman; Fíanna organizer with Con Markievicz 1909.

Constance, Countess Markievicz (née Gore-Booth, 1868-1927:  Born at London, educated at home at Lissadell, Co. Sligo; descended from Elizabethan planters; presented to Queen Victoria 1887; married 1900 Count Cazimir Dunin-Markievicz, a Polish noble landed in Ukraine; joined the Gaelic League and in 1908 Sinn Féin; founder 1909 of the Fíanna na hÉireann, the Nationalist youth organization; officer in the ICA; death sentence commuted to life imprisonment; released June 1917; 1918 first woman elected MP of the British Parliament; First Dail Eireann; Sinn Féin Minister for Labour; opposed the Treaty and joined Fíanna Fáil Party.  Yeats, "Easter 1916," "On a Political Prisoner."

CONCLUSION: THE LEGACY OF EASTER.