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Last episode, we discussed the planning and then the start of the Rising in Dublin on Easter

Week, 1916. When the Rising started, less than half of the men who had been

planned for mobilize to participate, and this caused the plan to essentially go out

the window. This episode we will look at what happened once the initial

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