On 11 May 1916, speaking in the House of Commons shortly after the Easter Rising and with the execution ... of Professor Eoin MacNeill, that the IRB began to assert greater control: they were ...
Among the main instigators of the attempted revolution were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB ... had condemned the Rising. Shortly after noon on Easter Monday, when the Rising ...
Despite their plans being in ruins, the IRB decided the rising would go ahead on Easter Monday. Their chances of success were extremely slim; however, Pearse believed that even if they were ...