Revolutionary Dublin

About This Tour

"All changed, changed utterly, a terrible Beauty is born" — so wrote the poet W. B. Yeats to describe the 1916 Rising, in which 1,100 men and women rose up and for six extraordinary days held out against the might of the British Empire. Retrace through the city the events of that tumultuous chapter in Irish history. Discover how the Rising was initially viewed as a failure — yet in that failure the seeds of independence were sown, culminating in the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922.

Through the Lens of History

The GPO, O’Connell Street — headquarters of the 1916 Rising

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A rebel barricade in the streets of Dublin, Easter Week 1916

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Irish rebels taken prisoner after the surrender, 1916

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Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street) in ruins after the Rising

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