A doomed six-day uprising failed militarily and still won Irish independence

On Easter Monday 1916, around 1,200 Irish rebels seized key buildings in Dublin and declared an independent republic, with little public support and no real hope of holding the city. British artillery crushed the rising within a week, and Dubliners initially jeered the surrendered rebels through the streets. But British executions of fifteen leaders over the following weeks turned public opinion, and within a few years the rising's demand had become the mainstream one.

— Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion — 2005
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