Calendar of Events Centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland Proclamation of the Irish Republic, signed on April 24, 1916 by seven leaders of the uprising, Thomas J. Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, Pádraig Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett. All were executed by the British after the rising was crushed. … Continue reading Calendar of Events: Centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland