The Easter Rising, a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week, 1916, is an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain.

It is the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798.Organized by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lastsfrom Easter Monday April 24 to April 30, 1916.

Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolteacher and barrister Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBan, seize key locations in Dublin and proclaim an Irish Republic independent of Britain.

There are some actions in other parts of Ireland but, except at Ashbourne, County Meath, they are minor.The Rising is suppressed after six days of fighting, and its leaders are court-martialled and executed, but it succeeds in bringing physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics.

In the 1918 General Election, the last all-island election held in Ireland, to the British Parliament, Republicans will win 73 seats out of 105, on a policy of abstentionism from Westminster and independence.

This comse less than two years after the Rising.

In January, 1919, the elected members of Sinn Féin who are not still in prison at the time, including survivors of the Rising, will convene the First Dáil and establish the Irish Republic.

The British Government will refuse to accept the legitimacy of the newly declared nation, leading to the Irish War of Independence.