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 ...

Funds raised were then shuttled on to Ireland to be used by the IRB as necessary. Devoy himself estimated that in the years leading up to the 1916 Easter Rising, Clan na Gael supplied the IRB with ...

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 ...