1916 People & Places

Sites of 1916: Enniscorthy

Enniscorthy in County Wexford was the only town or city outside Dublin to be seized by the Irish Volunteers in...

Sites of 1916: Dublin City Hall

Dublin City Hall, located at the intersection of Parliament Street and Dame Street in the south inner city, was originally...

Sites of 1916: Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall was originally the Northumberland Hotel, located just north of the River Liffey on Beresford Place, facing the Custom...

Patrick Pearse

Patrick Pearse was born on 10 November 1879 at 27 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. Educated at the CBS Westland Row, he then studied...

Éamonn Ceannt

Éamonn Ceannt was born Edward Thomas Kent on 21 September 1881 in Glenamaddy, Co. Galway. One of seven children born to...

Thomas Clarke

Thomas (Tom) Clarke was born on 11 March 1858 on the Isle of Wight, the eldest of four children born to James...

Joseph Plunkett

Joseph Mary Plunkett was born on 21 November 1887 at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street on the southside of Dublin city. One of seven...

James Connolly

James Connolly was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in June 1868. The youngest of three boys born to poor Irish Catholic immigrants,...

Sites of 1916: Jacob’s Biscuit Factory

The biscuit making firm of W. & R. Jacob's were one the largest employers in the Dublin of 1916, and...

Seán Mac Diarmada

Seán Mac Diarmada was born in January 1883 in Corranmore, Co. Leitrim. He studied at the local national school,...

Thomas MacDonagh

Thomas MacDonagh was born 1 February 1878 in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, to parents who were both National School teachers. MacDonagh was educated...

Sites of 1916: The Four Courts and Church Street

The area directly behind the Four Courts, extending up Church Street towards Phibsborough, was, after the GPO, the other main...

Sites of 1916: St Stephen’s Green and the Royal College of Surgeons

St Stephen's Green, at the southern end of Grafton Street, in the south inner city, was originally laid out...

Sites of 1916: The Rising in the Provinces - a failure to rise?

The Easter Rising was largely confined to Dublin. To understand why that was the case, we have to try and...

Sites of 1916: Mendicity Institution

The Mendicity Institution is a charity that was originally founded in 1819 to deal with the problem of begging in Dublin...

Sites of 1916: Ashbourne

Ashbourne in County Meath was the venue for one of the few military actions of the Rising to take place...

Sites of 1916: Arbour Hill

Arbour Hill prison is located behind Collins Barracks (formerly the Royal Barracks) in Arbour Hill, north of the River Liffey...

Sites of 1916: Galway

It is difficult to identify plans for the Rising outside Dublin with absolute certainty. Such plans as can be discerned...

Sites of 1916: South Dublin Union

The South Dublin Union, located on the site of what is now St James' Hospital, south-west of Dublin city centre,...

Sites of 1916: Boland’s Mill and Mount Street Bridge

Boland's Mills was situated in south Dublin, near Grand Canal Dock and overlooking the Grand Canal itself (the current...

Sites of 1916: The GPO

The General Post Office (GPO) on Dublin's Sackville Street (O'Connell Street) is the most famous location associated with...

The Men & Women of 1916: The Rebels Part 1

Thomas Ashe Thomas Ashe was born in 1885 at Kinard, Lispole, Co. Kerry. He trained to become a teacher at De...

The Men & Women of 1916: The Rebels Part 2

Kathleen Lynn The daughter of a Church of Ireland clergyman in Co. Mayo, Kathleen Lynn received an education in England,...

The Men & Women of 1916: The Executed

Thomas Clarke One of the seven signatories of the Proclamation, he was executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol on 3...

The Men & Women of 1916: British administration & forces

Robert Childers Barton Raised in Glendalough House, Annamoe, Co. Wicklow, Robert Childers Barton was educated at Rugby School, at Christ...

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