Easter Rising 1916

Happy Easter. Tá Críost éirithe! Painting of Christ by Grace Plunkett signed 'Mrs Joseph Plunkett'.

Holy Saturday 1916, Joseph Plunkett writes a note to his love Grace Gifford with instructions on how to use a gun for her protection. #EasterRising

I See His Blood Upon the Rose By Joseph Plunkett

On Good Friday of 1916, Roger Casement was captured at Banna Strand, attempting to land arms for the Easter Rising

Liam Mellows, Joe McKelvey, Rory O’Connor and Richard Barrett were executed by the Free State regime #OnThisDay in 1922

"We cannot divorce God and Ireland." Liam Mellows

'The whole history of Ireland is a record of betrayals by politicians and statesmen.' James Connolly

'The people are beginning to fear that the Irish Government is merely a machinery for their destruction.' John Mitchel

O wise men, riddle me this: what if the dream come true?

'We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland.'

"Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself." Roger Casement

Roger Casement was executed #OnThisDay in 1916

"Our children and our children’s children are to be compelled to pay in sweat and blood and tears for our weakness in submitting to the criminal ambitions of our rulers." James Connolly

"You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed." P.H. Pearse

"I feel happiness the like of which I have never experienced. I die that the Irish nation might live!” Sean Mac Diarmada was executed #OnThisDay in 1916

'If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!' James Connolly, executed #OnThisDay in 1916

Today we remember Éamonn Ceannt, Seán Heuston and Con Colbert and Michael Mallin who were executed #OnThisDay in 1916

''No man can claim authority to barter away the immutable rights of nationhood; for Irishmen have fought, suffered, and died through too many centuries in defence of those rights.'' John MacBride was executed #OnThisDay in 1916 #EasterRising

#OTD in the early hours of 3 May 1916, P.H. Pearse, Thomas J. Clarke and Thomas MacDonagh were executed in the Stonebreakers Yard of Kilmainham Gaol.