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Seizure of the Dublin General Post Office (GPO)

The seizure of the Dublin General Post Office (GPO), the raising of the a green flag with the words 'Irish Republic' written across it, along with a green, white and orange tricolour (which was actually supposed to be the flag of 'E Company', not of the republic, though it later came to be identified with the republic!) above it, and the reading of the proclamation of independence were to presage a bloody war. Though republican history often claimed that the Rising and its leaders had public support, in reality there were widespread calls for the execution of the ringleaders.

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