Mapping the 1916 Rising

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Across
  1. 7. The people in Ireland who wanted total independence from Britain
  2. 9. This leader of the Rising was married just hours before his execution
  3. 10. The British gunboat, the Helga, sailed up this river on Wednesday 26 April and shelled Liberty Hall.
  4. 14. The small group of seven men created by the Supreme Council of the IRB to plan the 1916 Rising.
  5. 15. This word means to see something from only one point of view
  6. 16. The GPO garrison evacuated to this street after the Volunteer headquarters was shelled on Friday of Easter Week
  7. 17. Thomas MacDonagh commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Volunteers at this factory during Easter Week
  8. 18. This man was the leader of the Irish Citizen Army
  9. 19. The House of Lords lost this power when the Parliament Act was passed in 1911
  10. 20. The unionist politician who organised the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant in 1912
  11. 22. The Irish Volunteers smuggled arms and ammunition into the harbour in 1914 on board the Asgard
  12. 23. the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster
  13. 24. The third Home Rule Bill was passed in the House of Commons in this month in 1912
  14. 25. Ned Daly commanded the 1st Battalion in this area in 1916
  15. 26. O’Connell Street was known by this name in 1916
  16. 30. This word means to be imprisoned without trial
  17. 31. The executions of the leaders of the Rising took place in this prison
  18. 32. The people who wanted Ireland to be an independent nation with her own parliament
Down
  1. 1. The idea that Ireland would have her own parliament in Dublin but still remain part of the British Empire
  2. 2. This countess served as second in command to Michael Mallin in st Stephens’ Green
  3. 3. Patrick Pearse read this important document outside the GPO on Easter Monday 1916
  4. 4. The group formed by Eoin MacNeill in November 1913 to protect the implementation of Home Rule in Ireland
  5. 5. The idea that Irish people would be inspired to fight for an Irish Republic by the blood spilled during the 1916 Rising
  6. 6. Eoin MacNeill tried to stop the Rising by issuing this document.
  7. 8. John Redmond’s speech asking Volunteers to joint he British war effort at this place in county Wicklow in September 1914, split the organization.
  8. 11. The prison camp in North wales to where many Irish prisoners were deported
  9. 12. one of the two main political parties in Britain in the early 20th century
  10. 13. A book or maps or charts
  11. 21. The German ship carrying arms and ammunition from German that was scuttled in Cork harbour
  12. 24. This man founded Sinn Fein
  13. 27. The women’s axillary organisation formed in April 1914
  14. 28. Many people in Dublin lived in this type of overcrowded and unsanitary building in the early 20th century.
  15. 29. The surname of the captain of the German ship carrying weapons for the Rising.