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The 1st battalion, under Edward 'Ned' Daly, occupied the Four Courts and surrounding buildings, while a company under Seán Heuston occupied the Mendicity Institution, across the River Liffey from the Four Courts. British forces initially put their efforts into securing the approaches to Dublin Castle and isolating the rebel headquarters, which they believed was in Liberty Hall. The idea is to help activate and support youth-led climate action on a number of fronts, from community volunteerism to advocacy to skills development, jobs and entrepreneurship. Two hours later, Bowen-Colthurst captured the Labour Party councillor and IRB lieutenant, Richard O'Carroll and had him shot in the street.

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At this meeting, they elected to stage an uprising before the war ended and to secure help from Germany. A plan is in motion to upload the learnings to a shared resource hub for other young people to use and adapt to their own community-based climate activities. The legacy of the Rising possess many dimensions although the declaration of the Republic and the ensuing executions remain focal points. Casement envisioned the recuritment of Irish prisoners of war, aided by a German expeditionary force who would secure the line of the River Shannon, before advancing on the capital.Greenwood Rising is a charitable organization under the provisions of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. On the night of 28–29 April, British soldiers of the South Staffordshire Regiment, under Colonel Henry Taylor, had burst into houses on North King Street and killed fifteen male civilians whom they accused of being rebels. The Irish Home Rule movement sought to achieve self-government for Ireland, within the United Kingdom.

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The likes of Grace Gifford, Markievicz and Casement converted from Protestantism to Catholicism just before, during and after the Rising, respectively. The most prominent leader to escape execution was Éamon de Valera, Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, who did so partly because of his American birth. Drawing upon this support, and amidst the deluge of nationalist ephemera, the immensely popular Catholic Bulletin eulogised Volunteers killed in action and implored readers to donate; entertainment was offered as an extension of those intentions, targeting local sectors to great success. Being extensively dramatised, its theatricality was identified in the moment and has been stressed in its remembrance. With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the government's view of the Rising grew more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.The Second Home Rule Bill of 1893 was passed by the House of Commons but rejected by the House of Lords. There were isolated actions in other parts of Ireland; Volunteer leader Eoin MacNeill had issued a countermand in a bid to halt the Rising, which greatly reduced the number of rebels who mobilised. Although sporting broadly open membership and without avowed support for separatism, the executive branch of the Irish Volunteers – excluding leadership – was dominated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) who rose to prominence via the organization, having had restarted recuritment in 1909. Some wore Irish Volunteer and Citizen Army uniforms, while others wore civilian clothes with a yellow Irish Volunteer armband, military hats, and bandoliers.

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Three unarmed Dublin Metropolitan Police were shot dead on the first day of the Rising and their Commissioner pulled them off the streets. This radical transformation was recognised in the moment and had become a point of concern among British authorities; after Connolly's execution, the remaining death sentences were commuted to penal servitude. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses.

Seachtar na Cásca is a 2010 Irish TV documentary series based on the Easter Rising, telling about seven signatories of the rebellion.