#OnThisDay 1916 British soldiers shot and/or bayoneted 15 civilian men in Dublin in what became known as the King Street Massacre. Some of the bodies were buried in basements of houses on the street. Gen. Maxwell said the soldiers were just doing their duty.
#OnThisDay 1916 Pearse unconditionally surrendered to General Lowe. Elizabeth O’Farrell (whose boots can be just seen to Pearse’s right) carried the surrender order to Lowe & then the other Volunteer positions. This effectively ends the Easter Rising in Dublin.
#OnThisDay 1916 The fighting in St. Stephen’s Green stops while the park keeper James Kearney feeds the park’s ducks. Later @DublinSPCA awarded Kearney a ‘parchment certificate for bravely feeding the waterfowl under fire’.
#OnThisDay 1916 Thomas Ashe & his Fingal Volunteers attacked the RIC barracks & convoy in Ashbourne. After a five hour firefight the RIC finally surrendered. Ashe lost 2 men while the RIC lost 8. Ashe captured several RIC vehicles & treated all RIC wounded.
#OnThisDay 1916 Pearse orders the evacuation of the GPO. The roof was melting and beginning to collapse from the fires caused by artillery. He ordered the CnB to leave but Wini Carney, Julia Grenan & Elizabeth O’Farrell refuse to leave wounded Connolly’s side.
The Irish at War 