While the Easter Rising of 1916 may have caught the British authorities in Dublin off guard, it was by no means a surprise to many in the Irish Volunteers. The Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood had been secretly planning the insurrection for several months. Among its council members was Pádraig Pearse, the […]
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