He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1999.

The Rising initially lacked wide public support within Ireland, and was suppressed by the British military authorities within a week.

General Post Office ( Dublin ) | The GPO on O ' Connell Street was at the centre of the 1916 Easter Rising.

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The Easter Rising () was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916.

The Rising was suppressed after seven days of fighting, and its leaders were court-martialled and executed, but it succeeded in bringing physical force republicanism back to the forefront of Irish politics.

General Maxwell quickly signalled his intention " to arrest all dangerous Sinn Feiners ", including " those who have taken an active part in the movement although not in the present rebellion ", reflecting the popular belief that Sinn Féin, a separatist organisation that was neither militant nor republican, was behind the Rising.

Not all of those executed were leaders: Willie Pearse described himself as " a personal attaché to my brother, Patrick Pearse "; John MacBride had not even been aware of the Rising until it began, but had fought against the British in the Boer War fifteen years before ; Thomas Kent did not come out at all — he was executed for the killing of a police officer during the raid on his house the week after the Rising.

A Royal Commission was set up to enquire into the causes of the Rising.

The Garden of Remembrance ( Dublin ) | Garden of Remembrance was opened in 1966, to mark the anniversary of the Rising.

A Labour Party TD, David Thornley, embarrassed the government ( of which Labour was a member ) by appearing on the platform at the ceremony, along with Máire Comerford, a survivor of the Rising, and Fiona Plunkett, sister of Joseph Plunkett.

With the advent of a Provisional IRA ceasefire and the beginning of what became known as the Peace Process during the 1990s, the official view of the Rising became more positive and in 1996 an 80th anniversary commemoration at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin was attended by the Taoiseach and leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton.

The family's chauffeur, Tom Branson, is an Irish republican and socialist whose cousin was killed by British soldiers during the Easter Rising under the suspicion that he was " probably a rebel.

It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916.

In 1919, the Irish Republic that had been proclaimed during the Easter Rising was formally established by an elected assembly ( Dáil Éireann ), and the Irish Volunteers were recognised by Dáil Éireann as its legitimate army.

However the term Irish Republican Army in its modern sense was first used in the second decade of the 20th century for the rebel forces of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising.

It was during the Rising that the Volunteers began to refer to themselves as the Irish Republican Army.

A small Irish nationalist party, Sinn Féin, was widely, but wrongly, credited with orchestrating the Easter Rising even though its leader Arthur Griffith advocated only Irish self-government under a dual monarchy.

Konoe was awarded the 1st class of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1939.

The first release as Irresistible Force was the single, " I Want To " ( 1988 ), but success came with the first album, Flying High, released in 1992 on Rising High Records.

Dr. Shohei Itoh and Masahiko Miyaki of the Denso Corporation, a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer, developed the common rail fuel system for heavy duty vehicles and turned it into practical use on their ECD-U2 common-rail system mounted on the Hino Rising Ranger truck and sold for general use in 1995.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

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* 1995: First successful use of common rail in a production vehicle, by Denso in Japan, Hino " Rising Ranger " truck.

Organised by the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising lasted from Easter Monday 24 to 30 April 1916.

At first, many members of the Dublin public were simply bewildered by the outbreak of the Rising.

Some survivors of the Rising went on to become leaders of the independent Irish state and those who died were venerated by many as martyrs.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

* The Plough and the Stars is a play by Seán O ' Casey that takes place during the Easter Rising.

* Edited by Ruán O ’ Donnell, The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations, Irish Academic Press Dublin 2008, ISBN 978-0-7165-2965-1

* Essay on the Rising, by Garret FitzGerald

* The 1916 Rising by Norman Teeling a 10-painting suite acquired by An Post for permanent display at the General Post Office ( Dublin )

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* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

Irish Republicans, who sought full independence for Ireland rather than just Home Rule, staged the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin against British rule.

The Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish War of Independence, and the subsequent Irish Civil War resulted in a significant amount of physical destruction in central Dublin.

In January 1919, the elected members of Sinn Féin who were not still in prison at the time, including survivors of the Rising, convened the First Dáil and established the Irish Republic.

The only substantial combat of the first day of the Rising took place at the South Dublin Union where a piquet from the Royal Irish Regiment, encountered an outpost of Éamonn Ceannt's force at the north-western corner of the South Dublin Union.

Irish War News, produced during the Rising

The aftermath of the Rising, and in particular the British reaction to it, helped to sway a large section of Irish nationalist opinion away from hostility or ambivalence and towards support for the rebels of Easter 1916.

A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the General Post Office ( Dublin ) | General Post Office, Dublin, with the Irish text in Gaelic type | Gaelic script, and the English text in regular Latin script

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916.

* McNally, Michael and Dennis, Peter, Easter Rising 1916: Birth of the Irish Republic ( 2007 ), Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84603-067-3

* Easter Rising 50th Anniversary audio & video footage from RTÉ ( Irish public television )