Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff helped organize support for this event, but was thwarted when the Libau was intercepted, while Constance Markiewicz aided it by digging trenches.
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff helped organize support for this event, but was thwarted when the Libau was intercepted, while Constance Markiewicz aided it by digging trenches. A declaration issued during this event proclaimed the importance of religious freedom and women's suffrage, and falsely asserted the inevitability of expatriate support. On the first day of this conflict, which Roger Casement attempted to supply with arms, one side took control of (*) Boland's Bakery, St. Stephen's Green and the road to Kingstown, positions which were promptly battered by artillery fire from Trinity College, forcing the instigators of this event back toward the General Post Office. Patrick Pearse and James Connolly were executed in the wake of its failure, though Eamon de Valera was able to evade his sentence and take over leadership of Sinn Fein. FTP, name this April, 1916 Irish rebellion immortalized in a W.B. Yeats poem, named for the Christian Holiday on which it occurred.
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff helped organize support for this event, but was thwarted when the Libau was intercepted, while Constance Markiewicz aided it by digging trenches.
{Easter} Rising [or {Easter} Rebellion or {Éirí Amach na Cásca}]