‘A Terrible Beauty’: Ireland’s Easter Rising, 1916
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On Easter Monday of 1916, a group of Irishmen led an uprising against the British. The freedom fighters dreamed of an independent Ireland, but sadly the rising quickly turned very bloody and the leaders were executed by the British, who brutally suppressed the rising. It was this event which Irish poet William Butler Yeats commemorated in his poem “
‘A Terrible Beauty’: Ireland’s Easter Rising, 1916
‘A Terrible Beauty’: Ireland’s Easter Rising…
‘A Terrible Beauty’: Ireland’s Easter Rising, 1916
On Easter Monday of 1916, a group of Irishmen led an uprising against the British. The freedom fighters dreamed of an independent Ireland, but sadly the rising quickly turned very bloody and the leaders were executed by the British, who brutally suppressed the rising. It was this event which Irish poet William Butler Yeats commemorated in his poem “