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Read the full story here (or most of it)of the Easter Uprising and The Famine
 

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This is just a short tribute to those who gave their lives for freedom. You can read the whole story above. There would be many more added to this list later on in history. Some of the men that led the Easter Uprising were my ancestors, and so I dedicate this tribute to them and those that joined them. The Easter Uprising was brought down quickly and its leaders captured. Many of the Irish felt that the rising was ill timed and a low blow to the thousands of Irishmen that were fighting in France at the time. In secret, military tribunals condemned the leaders of the Rising to death and, one by one, shot them at the Kilmainham jail in Dublin. These included Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, who was the first to sign the Proclamation of the Republic, and James Connolly who was so ill from being wounded in the battle that he had to be tied to the chair to be shot.

The American-born Eamon de Valera received a death sentence that were later commuted to life imprisonment. De Valera and a few others were granted amnesty by the following year. Casement was convicted of treason and hanged. Many others involved were sentenced to long prison terms. The Easter Uprising was the first in a series of events that culminated in the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1921. Casualties were about 440 British soldiers and an estimated 75 Irish. Property damage included the destruction of more than two hundred buildings in Dublin.

Below are the names of those that sacrificed their lives in battle.  

In loving memory of those that gave up their lives for Freedom
 

*=executed
Padraig Pearse * Thomas MacDonagh * Thomas Clarke * Joseph Plunkett * Edward Daly * Michael O’Hanrahan * William Pearse * Sean McBride * Con Colbert * Eamonn Ceannt * Michael Mallin * Sean Hueston * James Connolly * Sean McDermott * John Adams Thomas Allen William Burke Andrew Byrne James Byrne Louis Byrne Charles Carrigan Philip Clarke Sean Connolly James Corcoran Edward Costello John Costello Henry Coyle John Crenigan John Cromien Charles Darcy Brendan Donelan Patrick Doyle John Dwan Edward Ennis Patrick Farrell James Fox George Geoghegan John Healy Sean Howard Sean Hurley John Keely Con Keating Gerald Keogh Francis Macken Peader Macken Michael Malone Peter Manning James McCormack William McDowell Charles Monaghan Michael Mulvihill Richard Murphy Daniel Murray Richard O’Carroll Patrick O’Connor Patrick O’Flanagan John O’Grady The O’Rahilly John O’Reilly Thomas O’Reilly John Owens James Quinn Thomas Rafferty George Reynolds Fredrick Ryan Domhnall Sheehan Patrick Shortis John Traynor Edward Walsh Philip Walshe Thomas Weafer Patrick Whelan Peter Wilson Richard Kent Roger Casement Thomas Kent Thomas Ashe
 

And just to add my two cents worth, the so-called Famine was not a famine at all. Although the potato blight was real enough, the people of Ireland would have had plenty to eat if not for the strict (and that's putting it mildly) laws of the British on their crops. Most of what they grew was sent to Britain in those times to feed their greedy leaders and to be sold for profit. The actual title of that story should be 'The Starvation'--not 'The Famine'. If you have any comments on this subject, please e-mail me. I love hate mail. *_*

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