The executions of the Easter Rising leaders
1916 · Event
Over ten days, British firing squads at Kilmainham Gaol execute fifteen leaders of the Easter Rising — the wounded James Connolly shot tied to a chair. Dublin had jeered the rebels into captivity; the drawn-out killings turn them into martyrs and remake Irish opinion.
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