I nearly forgot about this historic event that occurred in Britain and Ireland, during the First World War when I was mostly concerned about that. It was thanks to a movie that my mom was watching. And this really occurred in Easter of 1916, where the Easter Rabbit never gave out chocolate eggs in Ireland.
In April of 1916, during the First World War, a year after the Lusitania sank, and how the United States was getting in, the British Empire was taking things too far. Aware of how World War I was getting worse, especially the air raids, they needed more men to go to war. And how law and order, was what people didn’t like on. Some of its troops were in Ireland, until a revolution struck. The Irishmen were fed up with the British Empire as they struck back. By taking firearms, and everything they had own, they made a stand against them.
Between the fighting Irish and the British soldiers, this was how the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was, but much different. For almost a week, from April 24th to April 29th, 1916, 260 civilians were killed in firefights, as how 2,217 civilians were wounded. A total kill-count, nearly 500. Some of them were executed. As dead as the three victims in “Paths of Glory”.
They never forgot for what happened. This was sort of like “Braveheart”, but mostly in Ireland. No movies that depicted that event. Not one bit. Mostly a few mini-series’s from BBC, and documentary tv shows too. One of them was narrated by Liam Neeson.
A century later, by celebrating its 100th anniversary, they had a parade or marching Irish soldiers, some people watching at the capitol, as seven planes flew above them in honor of to those in Ireland that were in the Easter Rising. One military cargo plane, and six spitfire fighter planes.
This event shall never be forgotten.
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