Easter Rising

2. Order Pearse issued on 29 April to prevent further civilian deaths.
5. Ultimate goal the rebels hoped to achieve for Ireland.
11. Three‑letter headquarters building seized by the rebels in central Dublin.
12. Future Irish president who led forces at Boland’s Mill and avoided execution because of his U.S. birth.
13. Building where the rebels printed the Proclamation and mustered on Easter Monday.
15. Surname of the poetic school‑teacher who read the Proclamation outside the GPO on Easter Monday 1916.
16. Women’s auxiliary that carried messages, nursed the wounded and smuggled arms.
17. Signatory who married Grace just hours before his execution.
19. Courts complex held by Ned Daly’s battalion.
20. Document declaring the Irish Republic, read aloud by Pearse.

1. Larger nationalist militia that provided most of the rebel fighters.
3. Workers’ militia formed after the 1913 Lockout, led by Connolly.
4. Labour leader and commander of the Irish Citizen Army during the Rising.
6. Punishments carried out in Kilmainham Gaol that shocked Irish public opinion.
7. British general dispatched to crush the rebellion and oversee the courts‑martial.
8. Royal Navy gunboat that shelled Sackville Street from the River Liffey.
9. Word describing the political consequences that followed the Rising.
10. Old Fenian and senior organiser who was one of the seven signatories.
14. Countess who fought in St Stephen’s Green and later became the first woman elected to Westminster.
18. Flour factory defended by De Valera’s men in Ringsend.