Images Dated 10th February 2000

Bloody Easter Dublin Further down O'Connel Street from the beseiged post office

Bloody Easter
Dublin
Further down O'Connel Street from the beseiged post office the exchange of fire set buildings ablaze. At the back was Liberty hall ... Rebel headquarters, also under siege. at the far end of O'Connel street flows the Liffey, up which the British sailed a gunboat to bombard the rebels. as a fiftieth annerversary touch ....somebody demolished Nelsons Pillar, the O'Connell street landmark frtom which this picture was taken in 1916. Topfoto stills library picture library stock archive vintage Ireland Irish Rebellion 1916

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Bloody Easter Dublin Martyrs to the cause

Bloody Easter Dublin
Martyrs to the cause ....these men .....and one woman led the 1916 Rebellion . They were not Quite the mould of Bolshevik revolutioinaries. They included poets, scholars, and several of noble birth. The woman Countess Markevicz and two men had their death sentances commuted to hard-labour for life. One of those two men was Eamon De Valera (bottom row) who Escaped to Become his country's elder statesman.This lauditory broadsheet was printed soon after the rising failed.
March 19 1916 Topfoto stills library picture library stock archive vintage Ireland Irish Rebellion 1916

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Sculpture in the cloister, St. Gatien Cathedral, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France, Europe

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