The Easter Rising, 1916
A.P. Ryan describes how, each Easter, the Irish Republic commemorates the anniversary of the April Rising in Dublin when a short-lived Provisional Government of the Republic was proclaimed.
A public opinion poll taken in Ireland, outside the Six Northern Counties, on the eve of the Dublin Easter Rising in 1916 would have shown most men and women in favour of Home Rule, some content with the status quo, and only a small minority thinking in terms of armed insurrection.
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