The Easter Uprising :: History Historical Ireland Essays

The Easter rebellion Ireland was filled with nationalistic views that had set in around the 1890s. The Irish were weary of the English occupation in Ireland and they were tired of the Protestant religious subjection of Catholics. So this is when Patrick Pearse and James Connolly led a band of around 1,200 Irish Nationalists on Easter Monday into a rebellion against the English, who occupied Ireland at the time. The rebellion began the day after Easter, 1916. The rebels took control of the General Post Office and held expose for six days. This was a smashing try by the Irish still it was not a success. Although the upgrade itself extirpateed in failure, it left fag a tradition of struggle that had far-reaching consequences. (Marxist) This repeat by Ted Grant sums up the end of the rising, for what he says is true, it was a failure but had more personal effect than just a L in the win/loss tower for the Irish slew. As one person puts it, there were many losings in all Between January 1917 and July 1923 , well over 7,500 people were killed or wounded, in a country that murder had become a rarity. The effects were more devastating than just that. One of the effects of the Easter Rising was Irish people speaking out for their country, Ireland. There were many people that wanted to speak out about what was happening to them. The Easter uprising although popular amongst a few amount of people, was not accepted by the masses of Irelands population. After the six days that Pearse held out the British army with hardly any time passing put and end to the uprising. One of the things that the British did when they stopped the rebellion was gave what they called peace to the people and arrested the leaders of the rising including Pearse and Connolly. Not all the Irish people agree with the rising. This quote from a leader of the Irish nationalist group shows how ones did disagree The great bulk of the population were not fav ourable to the rebels, they got no popular bread and butter whatsoever. What is happening is that