Victor Masson, 27, is the second foreigner to be killed in the state of Oaxaca this week. An Argentine man also died after being attacked with a machete
William Pearse, a leader during Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising, was executed on May 4, 1916. Below, a look at the Irish revolutionary's life. William (Willie) Pearse was born on November 15, 1881, two years after his brother Patrick in the same house on Great Brunswick Street.
The same week as the Easter Rising in 1916, more Irishmen were killed in France fighting in the British army than during the uprising. In Ireland, 488 Irish died; in France, 532 were killed.
Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021
13:23
A British machine gun located in the Iveagh Buildings on Bull Alley sprayed the building with bullets, shattering windows and damaging books.
Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh s Library, writes about Changed Utterly?, a new online exhibition which traces the experience of minorities during the Irish Revolution.
Founded in the Liberties of Dublin in 1707 by an Anglican clergyman, Marsh’s Library was widely associated in the popular mind with the Union between Britain and Ireland. During Easter Week 1916, its location beside Jacobs’ biscuit factory and Kevin Street police station meant that its treasures were in real danger of being destroyed. Some of the most striking items in ‘Changed Utterly?’ are the books hit by rifle and machinegun fire during the Rising.