{"id":13526,"date":"2016-03-23T14:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:03:06","slug":"military-history-battleground-dublin-remembering-the-oconnell-street-landmarks-of-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/23\/military-history-battleground-dublin-remembering-the-oconnell-street-landmarks-of-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"Military History: Battleground Dublin, Remembering the O’Connell Street Landmarks of 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTo commemorate the 100th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish building supply company Chadwick\u2019s is offering\u00a0MilitaryHistoryNow.com this infographic exploring some of the O\u2019Connell Street landmarks that were damaged and destroyed during the battle.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n

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FOR MANY<\/strong>, Dublin\u2019s famous O\u2019Connell Street<\/a>\u00a0is considered\u00a0\u2018ground-zero\u2019 for\u00a0the Easter Rising of 1916<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the start of the five-day insurrection, which ran from April 24 to 29 of that year, rebel forces stormed the General Post Office headquarters<\/a> on the city\u2019s legendary\u00a0main thoroughfare, known then as Sackville Street, and transformed the handsome Georgian-era office building into a fortified stronghold.<\/p>\n

After rebel leader Patrick Pearse<\/a> read aloud\u00a0a declaration proclaiming an independent Irish Republic<\/a>\u00a0from the post office steps, more than 1,200 insurgents fanned out across Dublin\u00a0to occupy strategic points and to seize weapons from local\u00a0armouries.<\/p>\n

Within 48 hours, British reinforcements moved in to retake the capital. Fighting raged in a number of spots across Dublin with much of the violence concentrated on Sackville Street. In fact, British artillery zeroed in on the rebel-controlled postal building\u00a0specifically \u2013 a gunboat on the River Liffey<\/a>\u00a0lobbed\u00a0dozens of\u00a0shells onto the area. By the time the battle was over, thousands of Dubliners were dead or wounded and the city\u2019s main boulevard looked like a Western Front war zone.<\/p>\n

To commemorate the 100th<\/sup> anniversary of the Easter Rising<\/a>, the Irish building supply company Chadwick\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0is offering\u00a0MilitaryHistoryNow.com<\/a> this infographic exploring some of the O\u2019Connell Street landmarks that were damaged and destroyed during the battle.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo commemorate the 100th\u00a0anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Irish building supply company Chadwick\u2019s is offering\u00a0MilitaryHistoryNow.com this infographic exploring some of the O\u2019Connell Street landmarks that were damaged and destroyed during the battle.\u201d   FOR MANY, Dublin\u2019s famous O\u2019Connell Street\u00a0is considered\u00a0\u2018ground-zero\u2019 for\u00a0the Easter Rising of 1916. At the start of the five-day insurrection, which ran…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5418,2004,1286,3321,1898],"tags":[10544,10545,4033,10546,762,3823],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}