Readings:
What if the guns had landed? | Century Ireland (rte.ie)
Weapons of the 1916 Rising | Century Ireland (rte.ie)
Remembering the 1916 Easter Rising - Day 1: Irish rebels rise | The Irish Post
Remembering the 1916 Easter Rising - Day 2 and 3: The British counterattack | The Irish Post
Remembering the 1916 Easter Rising - Day 4, 5 and 6: Rebel hopes dwindle | The Irish Post
Maynooth men:
Essay Plan
Intro:
P1. Lack of popular support. Most supported Home Rule. Detail HR popularity. IRB small secret organisation.
P2. Lack of armaments. Casement, mission to Germany, failure to secure troops or Irish Division.
P3. Lack of soldiers. Details of volunteers split, MacNeill against rising. Forged castle document and cancelation order. numbers involved. confusion and poor communication.
P4. Goes ahead on the Monday. objective: National uprising or Blood Sacrifice. Seized buildings, read out proclamation, people thought it was a play.
P5. failed tactics. seizing buildings can only have one outcome. failure to do reconnaissance, failure to take Dublin castle, the telephone exchange, to take railways or ports. Digging trenches in St Stephen's Green.
P6. British response. where troops came from, numbers. 20,000. outnumbered 10-1. confined to Dublin, few elsewhere, Ashbourne, Co. Meath, Wexford.
P7. Outgunned. Numbers and nature of weapons. Shelling. 4 artillary guns from Athlone and gun boat Helga.
P8. Surrender. detail the final day, civilian casualties. reason for surrender. Unconditional. reaction of the people and why.
P9. A victory of sorts. actions of the British, executions and internment. Dillion. Turned into Martyrs. Blood Sacrifice prophetic.
Conclusion.
