a rebellion to force the British to concede Irish independence.
             The Easter Rising was an unsuccessful rebellion staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday in April 1916. The rebellion marked the most famous attempt by militant republicans to seize control of Ireland and force independence from the United Kingdom. The Irish Republican revolutionary attempt occurred from April 24 to April 30, 1916, in which a part of the Irish Volunteers led by school teacher and barrister Padraig Pearse and the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic independent of Britain. The event is seen as an key point on the road to Irish independence, though it marked a split between republicanism and mainstream Irish nationalism.
             The seizure of the Dublin General Post Office and the raising of a green flag with the words 'Irish Republic' written across it, along with the colors green, white and orange above it, and the reading of the proclamation of independence was followed by a bloody war. Th
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