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Dublin

A view of Sackville Street (now O'Connell), Dublin, Ireland and the bridge over the Liffey River framed by a spray of shamrocks. The card was postmarked Dublin, August 30, 1911.
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Sackville Street, Dublin
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Valentine's Series
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Valentine, Dublin
Printed in Scotland

A view of Sackville Street (now O'Connell), Dublin, Ireland and the bridge over the Liffey River framed by a spray of shamrocks. The card was postmarked Dublin, August 30, 1911.

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Sackville Street, Dublin



Reverse:

Valentine's Series

Known throughout the World

Valentine, Dublin

Printed in Scotland

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Dublin, now the capital of the Republic of Ireland, was the central site of the 1916 Easter Rising a revolt against the British Empire to wrest an independent Ireland from the United Kingdom.

On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a bank holiday, the rebels, members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers, seized and barricaded points across the city including the General Post Office (GPO) and Liberty Hall in central Dublin, Boland's Bakery to the east, Jacob's Biscuit Factory to the south, and the South Dublin Union to the west. They entrenched in St. Stephen's Green.

This last was the most exposed position, and British snipers fired from the the Shelbourne Hotel down and into the Green. Dead horses and rebels lay on the street and in the park.

The British counter offensive escalated on Wednesday the 26th. From the River Liffey the gunboat Helga shelled Liberty Hall, home to the Irish Citizen Army. Buildings along Sackville (now O'Connell) Street and homes westward along the river were bombarded and machine-gunned. Rebels broke through from one building to the next, extending the battle.

On April 29, the Rebels surrendered their headquarters at the GPO. Much of central Dublin had been destroyed. In May, many of the leaders of the rebellion were executed, shot in Kilmainham Jail, Dublin except as noted.

May 3: Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke, Thomas Macdonagh.

May 4: Joseph Plunkett, Edward Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan

May 5: Major John MacBride

May 8: Eamonn Céannt, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert, Seán Heuston

May 9: Thomas Kent (Cork)

May 12: Seán MacDermott, James Connolly

August 3: Sir Roger Casement (hanged, Pentonville Prison, London, England)

The executions and the destruction in Dublin turned a population that had largely opposed the rebels to one that sympathized.

Dublin is a city in Ireland.

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Statistics for Dublin (1)

Type Statistic
Population 309,272

Some books about Dublin (8)

Title Author Last Name Author First Name
The Easter Rebellion Caulfield Max
Agony at Easter Coffey Thomas M.
Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 de Rosa Peter
Bloody Sunday Gleeson James
Easter Rising 1916; Birth of the Irish Republic by Michael McNally; Illustrated by Peter Dennis McNally Michael
Three Plays O'Casey Sean
The 1916 Poets Ryan Desmond
The Insurrection in Dublin Stephens James