Reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic Easter Rising 1916 Centenary in Dublin, Ireland

Reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic Easter Rising 1916 Centenary in Dublin, Ireland

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The Proclamation of the Republic , also known as the 1916 Proclamation or Easter Proclamation, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April 1916. In it, the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, styling itself the "Provisional Government of the Irish Republic", proclaimed Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom. The reading of the proclamation by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office (GPO) on Sackville Street (now called O'Connell Street), Dublin's main thoroughfare, marked the beginning of the Rising. The proclamation was modelled on a similar independence proclamation issued during the 1803 rebellion by Robert Emmet.

Location: Dublin Ireland