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A previously unpublished cache of documents from the University of Oxford's @BodleianLibs that tell the story of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising 100 years on

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In the unpublished 1916 documents we are posting, a guide of who is communicating with who #EasterRising #1916Rising

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Human rights campaigner Roger Casement is hanged at Pentonville Prison for his involvement in the Easter Rising.

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New Chief Secretary for Ireland Henry Duke appointed. Anti-partition meetings are held throughout Ulster.

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Thousands attend mass meeting in Dublin's Phoenix Park to protest against the proposed partition of Ireland in Home Rule Bill

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Once knighted for humanitarian work, Roger Casement is sentenced to death in London for role in the Easter Rising

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Royal Commission on Rebellion gives report critical of British administration in Ireland https://t.co/ksHVhHf9XN

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Jury convicts Roger Casement of treason in London. In Irish tradition, he makes an empassioned speech from the dock

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Bowen-Colthurst found guilty but insane at court martial for murder of pacifist Sheehy Skeffington & 2 journalists

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June Doc of Month is the will of Seán MacDiarmada written on the day of his execution.More @ https://t.co/MA6I4gFjzE

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Scholar & Irish Volunteers leader
Eoin MacNeill, who tried to stop the Rising, gets life sentence at court martial

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The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Rebellion in Ireland opens in London

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Official figures of British casualties in the Easter Rising declare 106 were killed and 334 wounded.

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16th May 1916. "Findings of Jury at inquest on King Street murders". BMH Chronology https://t.co/yAmOxVEXVW

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Trial of Roger Casement, accused of high treason over the Easter Rising, begins in London https://t.co/494fAKBZs2

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"It's just a wee note to say I have been tried by court martial and sentenced to be shot" https://t.co/yDOHeLVcAy

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Seán Mac Diarmada and James Connolly, tied to a chair as he is too wounded to stand, are executed in Kilmainham

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Nora Connolly, daughter of James Connolly, describes last time she saw her father on eve of his execution 100yrs ago https://t.co/AcFc0L96Ht

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Thomas Kent executed in Cork after a gunfight when police raided the home of his family, prominent nationalists

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Michael Mallin, Éamonn Ceannt, Conn Colbert, and Seán Heuston are executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol

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John MacBride, who joined the Rising on the spot when he happened upon it underway, is executed in Kilmainham Gaol

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Joseph Plunkett, Michael O’Hanrahan, Edward Daly and Willie Pearse are executed