Good question/ceist mhaith: "Why Wasn't Éamon de Valera Executed in 1916?"

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Éamonn Ceannt was executed on 8 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of Independence. Michael Mallin, Cornelius “Con” Colbert and Sean Heuston were also executed on the same day.

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The following year their son Seán MacBride was born. MacBride and Maud separated in January 1905. 2/2

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John McBride (Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde) died on 5 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was executed by the British government for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. McBride took part in the Second Boer War on the Boer side, for whom he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade which became known as MacBride's Brigade. 1/2

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Francis Sheehy Skeffington, a pacifist, was murdered by the British forces on 26th April 1916 after being apprehended whilst trying to stop looting during the Easter Uprising. He and Thomas Dickson and Patrick McIntyre, both non-combatant journalists, were executed by firing squad. He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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The first victim of the Easter Rising, Margaret Keogh, was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union. 2/2

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On Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, the Easter Uprising (An tÉirí Amach na Cásca) began. The Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army seized the General Post Office (GPO) and several key buildings in Dublin and demanded Irish sovereignty. Pádraig Pearse read out the Proclamation of Independence at 12:04pm from the steps of the building after his men had seized the GPO. 1/2

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John MacBride (Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde) was born on 7 May 1868 in Westport, County Mayo. He was executed by the British government for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. McBride took part in the Second Boer War on the Boer side, for whom he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade which became known as MacBride's Brigade. In 1903 he married Maud Gonne.

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John McBride (Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde) died on 5 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was executed by the British government for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. McBride took part in the Second Boer War on the Boer side, for whom he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade which became known as MacBride's Brigade. In 1903 he married Maud Gonne. The following year their son Seán was born.

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On the morning of 3rd May 1916 Pádraig Mac Piarais, Tomás Mac Donnchadha and Tomás Séamus Ó Cléirigh were executed by firing squad by the British occupying forces for taking part in the Easter Uprising (Éirí Amach na Cásca).

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Francis Sheehy Skeffington, a pacifist, was murdered by the British forces on 26th April 1916 after being apprehended whilst trying to stop looting during the Easter Uprising. He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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The first victim of the Easter Rising, Margaret Keogh, was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union. 1/2

#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterUprising #PádraigPearse #Dublin #OnThisDay

On Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, the Easter Uprising (An tÉirí Amach na Cásca) began. The Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army seized the General Post Office (GPO) and several key buildings in Dublin and demanded Irish sovereignty. Pádraig Pearse (Pádraig Mac Piarais) read out the Proclamation of Independence at 12:04pm from the steps of the building after his men had seized the GPO. 1/2

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John MacBride (Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde) died on 5 May 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol. He was executed by the British for his participation in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. MacBride took part in the Second Boer War on the Boer side, for whom he raised the Irish Transvaal Brigade which became known as MacBride's Brigade. In 1903 he married Maud Gonne. The following year their son Seán MacBride was born.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterUprising #Dublin #JohnMcBride #MaudGonne #SeánMacBride #OnThisDay

Francis Sheehy Skeffington, a pacifist, was murdered by the British forces on 26th April 1916 after being apprehended whilst trying to stop looting during the Easter Uprising. He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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The first victim of the Easter Rising, Margaret Keogh, was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital). 2/2

#Ireland #IrishHistory #EasterUprising # PádraigPearse #Dublin #OnThisDay

On Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, the Easter Uprising (Éirí Amach na Cásca) began. The Irish Volunteers and Citizen Army seized the General Post Office (GPO) and several key buildings in Dublin and demanded Irish sovereignty. Pádraig Pearse read out the Proclamation of Independence at 12:04pm from the steps of the building after his men had seized the GPO. 1/2

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