Video: 'The Easter Rising - Ireland in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special'

(Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, shortly before midday GMT) — The Easter Rising armed insurrection was launched today as Irish republicans seized several key sites in Dublin to push for an end to British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic.

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