Easter Rising Commemoration

Please don your Easter Lily and join us for a reading of the Irish Proclamation on the steps of the Irish Heritage Center before we ring the bell in honor of those brave Irish men and women who, against all odds and despite defeat, shook the British Empire to the core as we commemorate the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

110 years ago, a group of 1200-1600 members of Irish Volunteers, Irish Citizen Army, and Cumann na mBan marched into Dublin city center to face a British force of approximately 16000. The event that took place from April 24th until April 29th 1916 would become forever known as the Easter Rising. The heavy-handed British response to the Rising turned a largely unpopular rebellion into the catalyst for Irish Independence.

The rising began shortly after Padraig Pearse read the Irish Proclamation aloud on the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin at 12:45 PM on April 24th.

The Proclamation had seven signatories: Thomas Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, Padraig Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett, all of whom were executed by firing squad in the days immediately following the Rising.