John Redmond - leader of the Home rule party in 1914, John Devoy - Clann na nGael leader in New York, Act of Union - legislation that closed the Dublin Parliament in 1801, Anglicanisation - process of adopting English customs and culture, tenements - slum housing in Dublin during 1800s, James Connolly - he set up the ICA during the Dublin lock out 1913, Saint Enda's - school set up by Patrick Pearse, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - Patrick Pearse gave a famous graveside oration at his funeral in Glasnevin, The Abbey - theatre associated with WB Yeats and the Anglo-Irish literary revival, UVF - Unionist paramilitary force, Eoin MacNeill - leader of the Volunteers, Sir Roger Casement - a famous critic of imperialism and colonialism, Larne - port where UVF landed a large shipment of arms in 1914, Howth - port where Volunteers landed arms in 1914, Home Rule - limited form of self-government for Ireland, 1840s - decade when the Great Famine happened, Gaelic League - founded by Douglas Hyde to revive the Irish language, Protestant Ascendancy - ruling class in Ireland after the Plantations, Westminster - Parliament in London, Republican - Irish nationalist prepared to use arms to achieve full independence, Fenian - name used to describe a member of the IRB, Tom Clark - main instigator of the 1916 Rising, Asgard - Erskine Childer's yacht (Howth), Helga - British gunship used to shell Dublin in 1916, Aud - Ship that tried to bring arms from Germany to the 1916 rebels, Edward Carson - leader of Unionist opposition to the Third Home Rule Bill, 1912 - year of the Ulster Solemn League and Covenant, Boland's Mill - garrison commanded by De Valera in 1916, Mount Street - bridge where rebel inflicted heavy casualties on British troops in 1916, blood sacrifice - idea associated with Patrick Pearse (martyrdom),

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