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than success. Perhaps he realized that his<br />
brand of militant Republicanism, with all its<br />
martial imagery and rhetoric, was not<br />
actually that popular amongst the <strong>Irish</strong> and<br />
that his aims could only be achieved by<br />
provoking the British to over-react. It is<br />
equally possible that these hardcore<br />
revolutionaries were so divorced from reality<br />
that they felt that all they had to do was rise<br />
up and declare a Republic and every man in<br />
Ireland would rally around the green flag.<br />
Either way, this minority within a<br />
minority was determined to rebel, and<br />
<strong>The</strong> centre of Dublin was reduced to ruins during the<br />
fighting of 1916. (Courtesy of National Library of Ireland,<br />
Photographic Archive)<br />
despite Eoin MacNeill's opposition they went<br />
ahead with their plans. Thus, on Easter<br />
Monday 1916, parties of <strong>Irish</strong> Volunteers and<br />
ICA seized strategic locations around Dublin<br />
and Pearse declared, 'in the name of dead<br />
generations', an <strong>Irish</strong> Republic from the<br />
main entrance of the General Post Office<br />
(CPO) on Sackville (now O'Connell) Street.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Easter Rising had begun.
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