Hostilities began at noon on April 24th, when Tom Clarke led almost 2000 men to take over a post office and  other public buildings.
Hostilities began at noon on April 24th, when Tom Clarke led almost 2000 men to take over a post office and  other public buildings. The suspension of the recently enacted Home Rule Bill had stimulated the growth of the  Citizen Army, an illegal group organized by Jim Larkin and James Connolly, and thirteen others including Patrick Pearse were sentenced to death and executed after its failure, while Sir Roger Casement was convicted of treason and became the last prisoner killed in the Tower of London, and Eamon de Valera's death sentence was commuted. FTP name this 1916 Irish rebellion, named for the holiday on which it occurred.
Hostilities began at noon on April 24th, when Tom Clarke led almost 2000 men to take over a post office and  other public buildings.
Easter Rising (or Rebellion)