What were the consequences of the 1916 Easter Rebellion?
In your research type in the phrase “blood sacrifice 1916” and see what comes up. On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a force of Irishmen under arms estimated at between 1,000 and 1,500 men and women attempted to seize Dublin, with the ultimate intention of destroying British rule in Ireland and creating an entirely independent Irish Republic to include all 32 counties of Leinster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught. Their leaders, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and the others, knew that their chances of success were so slight as to be almost non-existent. Yet they fought, and died. Why? More……… http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/1916/ 1916 - Connolly, blood sacrifice and defeating British imperialism http://indymedia.ie/article/75643