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Easter Rising
Éirí Amach na Cásca
Part of World War I
Easter Proclamation of 1916.png
Proclamation of the Republic, Easter 1916
Date 24–29 April 1916
Location Dublin,
skirmishes in counties Meath, Galway, Louth, and Wexford
Result Unconditional surrender of rebel forces, execution of most leaders.
Belligerents
Irish rebel forces:
 Irish Volunteers
 Irish Citizen Army
 Cumann na mBan		 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Army
Commanders and leaders
Patrick Pearse Executed
James Connolly Executed
Tom Clarke Executed
Seán MacDermott Executed
Joseph Plunkett Executed
Éamonn Ceannt Executed
Thomas MacDonagh Executed		 John French
Ivor Churchill Guest
John Maxwell
Lovick Bransby Friend
W. H. M. Lowe
Strength
1,250 in Dublin,
~2,000–3,000 elsewhere, but they took little part in the fighting.		 16,000 troops and 1,000 armed police in Dublin by the end of the week.
Casualties and losses
64 killed
unknown wounded
16 executed		 132 killed
397 wounded
254 civilians killed
2,217 civilians wounded
Total killed: 466