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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.