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The Easter Rising

General Post Office, Dublin

Rebels seized the Post Office and declared an Irish Republic.

On Easter Monday 1916, Irish rebels took over key buildings in Dublin, and Patrick Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside the General Post Office. After a week of fighting, much of the city centre was in ruins.

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When
24 April 1916
Where
53.3490, -6.2600
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The GPO has the 'Witness History' museum. Bullet marks show on the columns.

Cover of Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful? by Cale Mills
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Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?

This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.

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