1916 Easter Revolution in Colour

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View reconditioned and colourfully restored photographs from 1916 like you've never seen them before, during a revolutionary epoch in Irish Resistance.

 

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Some images: 

 

The aftermath.

 

British troops with the aide of a 29-ton Mark V. Battle tank, conduct a blockade and carry out raids across Capel Street, Dublin, 1921.

 

 

James Connolly, second from the right, with some of the first recruits to the Irish Citizen Army, conducting drills with hurling sticks in the Phoenix Park Dublin, 1913.

 

Countess Markievicz, Irish revolutionary, suffragette, and champion of the working class.

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Na Fianna Éireann executive council in 1915 

 

Picture shows (from left: Patrick Holahan, Garry Holahan, Michael Lonergan or Liam O' Maoiliosa, Padraig Ryan or Sean Houston, Con Colbert)