Destruction of Dublin

Looking down from Nelson's Pillar Dublin on to the portico of the gutted post office. (Manchester Guardian History of War 1916. Full collection available in NLI)

Corner of Upper Sackville Street and North Earl Street, one of the first positions of the city to be burnt. (After the Insurrection, Digital Library, Villanova University)

This cattle train was derailed by a dynamite explosion in Blanchardstown, Dublin. It preceded a troop train, for which the explosion was intended. (Irish Life 1916 booklet - 'A Record of the Irish Rebellion, 1916)

The damage to O'Connell Bridge after a gas explosion (After the Insurrection, Digital Library, Villanova University)

Aerial view of the ruins on North Sackville Street (Manchester Guardian History of War 1916. Full collection available in NLI)

The remains of the Dublin Bread Company at 6-7 Lower Sackville Street after Easter week. (National Library of Ireland, KE 115)

The crowds in Lower Sackville Street watching the remains of buildings being pulled down. (After the Insurrection, Digital Library, Villanova University)

One of the barricades in place on the Dublin streets. (Manchester Guardian History of War 1916. Full collection available in NLI)

Removing the debris from Middle Abbey Street. (After the Insurrection, Digital Library, Villanova University)

The remains of a motor car seized by the rebels and used as a part of the barricade. (Manchester Guardian History of War 1916. Full collection available in NLI)

Men surveying the wreckage of Linenhall Barracks in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Dublin. (National Library of Ireland, KE 108)

Aerial view of the burnt out buildings in Sackville street. (Manchester Guardian History of War 1916. Full collection available in NLI)

GPO interior burnt out with officers standing inside. (Manchester Guardian History of War 1916. Full collection available in NLI)

The damage on Eden Quay after the fighting. (After the Insurrection, Digital Library, Villanova University)

The shell of the G.P.O. on Sackville Street, Dublin in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. (National Library of Ireland, KE 121)