1916 Easter Rising
Thomas Ashe, the Kerry schoolteacher who died on hunger strike in 1917
On This Day: Éamonn Ceannt, revolutionary piper of Irish independence, born in 1881
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Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
On This Day: 1916 Easter Rising leader Roger Casement is born
The mass card used in Michael Collins's funeral in 1922
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
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On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
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