Easter Rising 1916

The 1916 Easter Rising occurred between Easter Monday, 24 April, and Saturday 29 April, when about 1, 800 members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army occupied various prominent buildings in central Dublin. Their headquarters was established at the General Post Office in O'Connell St., where Patrick Pearse read out a proclamation establishing the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. Besides Pearse, the signatories were Thomas Clarke, Seán MacDiarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett—all members of the Military Council of the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood)
Other Volunteers seized such buildings as the Jacob's Factory, Boland's Mills and The College of Surgeons.
The leaders of The Rising and their followers held out for a week, vastly outnumbered by the British Forces. On Saturday the 29th of April, Patrick Pearse gave the orders for an unconditional surrender.
The leaders of the 1916 Rising were all put on trial. Fifteen were shot in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin between the 3rd and 12th of May. These executions caused a sea-change of attitudes and created much public sympathy towards the ideals of the 1916 leaders.