Who Is W.B Yeats talking about in His Poem Easter 1916?

Well Connolly was an Irish socialist leader. He was right hand man to James Larkin in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. In 1913, in response to the Lockout, he, along with an ex-British officer, Jack White, founded the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), an armed and well-trained body of labour men whose aim was to defend workers and strikers, particularly from the frequent brutality of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.

Though they only numbered about 250 at most, their goal soon became the establishment of an independent and socialist Irish nation. He founded the Irish Labour Party in 1912 and was a member of the National Executive of the Irish Labour Party when he was executed in 1916. And well Patrick Pearce: By 1903 he was the editor of An Claidheamh Soluis, the Journal of the Irish League.

He founded a boarding school for boys- St. Enda's. Pearce was a strong supporter of Home Rule for Ireland and read much about revolunionaries including Wolf Tone. He was a member of the Irish ... more.

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