1-156-905 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

English troops under fire in Talbot Street, Anti-English Irish uprising, Dublin, May 1916. English troops under fire behind a barricade of cars, facing a charge by the rebels. The rebellion on Easter Sunday, known as the Easter Rising, was organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a descendent of the Fenians, Although it failed, the rising resulted in great propaganda for the Republican cause when the British executed its leaders.