Easter Movement: John Devoy And Easter Uprising

The Irish people left Ireland and immigrated to America to enjoy a better life, get away from the poverty and starvation that they were faced with in Ireland due to the potato famine. They face all kinds of discrimination and were forced to take the worst types of jobs, but they never gave up and kept fighting for their freedom. The Irish were brave, courageous, and hardworking and made it possible for all Irish to live happy and free lives in America.

This culminated in the Rebellion of 1798, lead by Wolfe Tone and the Society of United Irishmen, in which Hugh and Jimmy participated: “The road to Sligo. A spring morning. 1798. Going into battle” (445). But, as these characters soon discovered, the rebellion failed resulting in large executions and the passing of the Act of Union in 1800. This piece of legislation, effective from 1 January 1801, brought Ireland under the direct rule of the British Crown.

The IRA split into two groups; The official IRA who wanted to achieve a United Ireland, and the Provisional IRA who thought of the British Army as an army of occupation and believed violence was the answer and would achieve their goal. The Provisional IRA shot Gunner Curtis. He was the first British soldier to be killed in the Northern Ireland.

Conclusion: Patrick Henry hoped to influence the people to fight for their freedom. Henry was able to see the signs that the American colonies had no chance of independence. Every opportunity that the colonial members took to try to seek independence the King of England either took it as a joke or as a threat. The Colonist waited in hope for over ten years for freedom, Henry was able to see that the only way out of the tyrant King was to fight or die trying to achieve independence.

Patrick starts out his speech by giving the members of the convention a reason to fight against Great Britain for their independence. “We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament . . . [W]e have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne” (Henry 82). Patrick poses these examples to the convention as a form of a rhetorical statement to prove to them that mere words will not get the people their independence. It can also be seen by the number of tasks done by the convention to gain freedom, but all have failed. Another way that Patrick got the people of convention to agree to fight was to talk about how the fight has already begun. “It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next . . . I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!” (Henry 83). This quote intertwines very much with Patrick’s view on humans about how they are free beings and must fight to ensure and protect their rights. Patrick’s famous saying, “ ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’ ” is now a world renowned saying, where Patrick announced that he would prefer death over living, if he did not have his freedom. This came to be one of the causes as to why we have our independence

The Irish were promised the Home Rule Act, but it was taken away at the start of the Ester Uprising. “This modest promise was swept away the Easter Uprising of 1916, when a small band of rebels paralyzed the city and the Irish Republic was proclaimed from the steps of the GPO” (Hegarty). Padhraic Pearse led about 2000 people into the Easter Revolution, only a small fraction of the people that had lived in Dublin at the time. Most of the Irish were involved in World War I. “They had little support – many Irish volunteers had joined the war effort and the rebels were perceived to be traitors to the great cause” (Hegarty). It would take more violence and rebellion against the British to bring attention to their cause both locally and abroad.

There were two distinct groups in the Irish community. There were the Roman Catholic Irish and the Protestant Irish based on their faith it divided the Irish community. It was such an

Patrick Henry, a formal attorney, a politician, an orator, and a founding father who served as Colonel in the first Virginia regiment during the revolutionary war gave his famous speech at the Virginia House of Burgesses to declare independence from Great Britain. Although Patrick Henry wanted to establish peace and liberty with the British, nothing was working in order to establish harmony while doing it peacefully. Therefore, the only way to achieve these goals is to initiate a full out war against the British.

Everybody knows something about the American Revolution. But how many people know about the eerily similar, yet drastically different Irish Easter Rising and subsequent revolution? Causes, leaders, battles, treaties, resolutions, and effects are a part of every country. Sometimes they are similar, and other times not, as is the case with America and Ireland.

The start of the Irish’ peoples struggles began when the British came and destroyed their way of life. The Penal laws of 1691 stripped Irish Catholics of their freedoms by taking away their rights to become officers

The war between the republicans and the unionists in Dublin, Ireland gets pretty serious when you read the story (based on an autobiography), "The Sniper" written by Liam O'Flaherty. The republicans want Ireland to stay as a part of the United Kingdom while the unionists want Ireland to be its own country. Because of this war, many people die because of snipers in the army. In my opinion, the sniper can be considered and is a hero. It is because of the reasons he is fighting for, he kills an old lady and his brother,

Irish independence has been fought for a long time ever since the British occupied Ireland in 1172. The King of England invaded and controlled Ireland. The invasion led to religious and territorial conflicts. There was an effort to create a church comparable to the Church of England in the 1500s. Catholics who live in Ireland were against the idea and a conflict for independence has emerged (Arena & Arrigo, 2004). The suppression of Irish nationalism by the British in the 20th century led to the creation of martyrs for the cause led by the Irish Republican Army (Combs, 2011).

On the 14th of September in the year 1607 the Earl of Tyrone Hugh O’Neill and the Earl of Tyrconnel Rory O’Donnell fled Ireland alongside officials, their families and numerous Gaelic chieftains. They left Ireland from Rathmullen in County Donegal. This flee was to become known as the flight of the Earls. They arrived in the Spanish Netherlands and then eventually made their way to Rome. The Flight of the Earls led to the most drastic form of the British government’s policy of plantation in Ireland. The Flight of the Earls has remained as one of the most memorable events in the history of Ireland.

During 1916, Patrick Pearse had certain ideologies connected with him like the believe that the Irish cause was somehow connected or similar with Christ’s sacrifice which appealed to certain people like Thomas MacDonagh, an Irish political activist and a prominent leader of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and Joseph Plunkett who was an Irish nationalist and part of the IRB . Before the Easter Uprising James Connolly had his own realistic ideas about internationalist socialism which is the belief that capitalism is a global system so in order to defeat it the working class must act as a global class . Connolly played no part in the original plans of the IRB Military Council who aim was to push redistribution and collective ideals . It was said that Connolly “had a notion that once a stand was made, however brief, in Dublin the country would turn in a mass against the British government and overthrow it ” (Modern Ireland; 478). Connolly eventually agreed to join in the Easter Uprising . Sean MacDermotts, an Irish political leader and activist who was one of the several leaders in the Easter Uprising saw a connection between IRB nationalism and socialism . There were certain practical individuals who saw the Irish Volunteers as a type of military machine who would fight for Britain

In the past, Island was occupied by England and whatever happened in 1972 was the third blood Sunday in the history of Island. The 1st bloody Sunday happened in 1920 and the 2nd happened in 1921 after a year. Bono wrote the song when the 3rd event happened in civil right march and in this event 26 civilian protesters shot by British soldiers in the city of Derry that is in the Northern Ireland. In 1972 event the British soldiers lost their control and shot many civilians and afterwards, they lied that protesters were throwing stones and cocktails on them which is not true. The soldiers shot the innocent men and boys without any sort of warning that is really depressing in the history of Irish