On this day 102 years ago, at 12:04 Patrick Pearse and his 1,500 followers in the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army take various buildings like the G.P.O., Boland’s Mills, City Hall and others around Dublin City centre. The Easter Rising had begun.
A military failure right from the start, Pearse knew it would be but wanted a blood sacrifice.
‘Death was not the cost but the reward of sacrifice’
The Rising would last barely six days.
However, it started a push for Irish independence that would be achieved five years later.
The Irish at War 