1916 Rising ...
The Aud carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles, 1 million rounds of ammunition for the Easter Rising is scuttled at the mouth of Cork harbour by its captain Karl Spindler two days before the rising began https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0802/894695-gun-runner-the-aud/

This further convinces McNeill that the 1916 rising should not go ahead and so he sends O'Rahilly to Cork and Kerry to spread the word that the rising was called off.
The next day Easter Sunday - McNeill publishes a short reminder ordering volunteers not to venture to Dublin

However between 1,250 -2,000 that did make their way for the rising were members of the Irish Citizens Army, Cumann na mban, among them Countess Markievch who was raging with McNeill

23 April 1916
1000s of copies of the proclamation are printed and pasted onto walls and poles across Dublin city, people read them excitedly with some ironically enquiring if it was an upcoming play at the Abbey Theatre, Markievch was asked if she was acting in the play

April 24th 1916
The Easter Rising
It's a Bank Holiday Monday, the races were on at Fairyhouse so a lot of the British officials and staff had left Dublin
Nothing was inevitable, it was random, unexpected, strange and that's what made it so interesting

12.00 pm.
Volunteers seize weapons from the Magazine Fort in Dublins Phoenix Park.
12.20 pm ..
Rebels march into the GPO and establish the headquarters of the rising, the tri- colour is flown from the roof, Pearse is acting president with the military controlled by Connolly.

12.45
Padraig Pearse reads out the proclamation and declares Ireland a Republic on behalf of the ' Provisional Government ' to a bewildered confused crowd of a few hundred people who were unsure what was going on. Who was he, what did his uniform represent and what is he reading

When people began to understand - the rising was met with general bemusement, thousands of Dubliners had relatives fighting for the British in Europe, most oppose the rising, some actually stone the rebels.

13.22 pm
With many British soldier's at the Irish Grand National, Dublin Castle the centre of British administration in Ireland lay practically empty, actor Sean Connolly and radical feminist Helena Maloney set out to take the castle, they were met by sergeant James O'Brien

Who the fatally shot outside the gate O'Brien became the first casualty of the rising, Sean Connolly is shot and killed

13.38 pm
British lancers on horse back charge down Sackville street ( O'Connell street today ) - towards the GPO but are repulsed
The failure of the rebels to successfully take over the telephone exchange means that the lines of communication remain open from Dublin to London

Day.2
25th April 1916
05.30 am
British troops at Shelbourne Hotel machine gun rebels at Stephen's Green who fall back to the Royal College of Surgeon's
11.20
Irish volunteers repulse British infantry from the South Dublin Union, Volunteer Cathal Brugha injured but fights on

With the help of future Irish Taoiseach WT Cosgrave

Day 2: 19.50 pm
Dublin Fusiliers of the British army capture the Mail & Express buildings on Cork Hill, but 23 die on nearby Parliament Street in an ambush, rebels there now retreat across the Liffey

20.00 pm
A British gunboat sails into Grand Canal Dock and fires at Bolands Bakery.

21.40 pm
Rebels occupy the Imperial and Metropole Hotels near the GPO, plus parts of Henry Street, Marital law is declared by the British
Looting is widespread and symbolised how normal law and order was in chaos now
British Prime minister Asquith is slow to respond

However the British response does come - it is with military might, what awaits on Day 3 for Pearse Connolly and the Irish rebels of 1916 as the fight against British rule in Ireland continues

Whilst waiting on Day 3 the history of British occupation and oppression must of playing within the minds of these rebels holed up in the GPO
English genocide of Ireland 1845-1851

The suffering, the dark days of the 1845 English manufactured famine in Ireland were behind us, 1000s of miles away in the middle East in Iran, the British committed a worse atrocious event, Iran had only discovered oil in their nation in 1908
Unknown facts
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Day 3
April 26th 1916
06.20 am
British troops arrive at Kingstown ( Dún Laoghaire ) including two troops of Sherwood foresters ( they were so young and inexperienced they had to be shown how to load guns when they arrived at the pier ) they were cheered on arrival

09.00 am
Food supplies in Dublin run low. A British gunboat, the Helga, shells rebels at Liberty Hall and the building is later captured by the British
09.36 am
British troops in the Gresham Hotel fire on the GPO and the streets turn to rubble under artillery fire

12.40 pm
Rebels at 25 Northumberland road, the Schoolhouse and Clanwilliam House ambush the Sherwood foresters, a small amount of rebels manage to inflict 234 casualties around Mount Street bridge

13.45 pm
Dublin Fusiliers capture the Mendacity Institute and lay siege to the Four Courts

Sean Heuston with 30 rebels hold out against an estimated 400 British forces blocking their progress from Kingsbridge to Four Courts, eventually run out of ammunition, with the threat of being over-run, Heuston decides to surrender, the first rebels to surrender their position

Sackville street burns throughout the night