The North King Street Massacre — A Forgotten Story of the 1916 Easter Rising

<p>The small warren of streets around North King Street and Church Street witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. On Easter Monday members of the First Battalion of the Irish Volunteers under the command of Edward Daly and attached to the Four Courts garrison barricaded streets and commandeered houses, shops, and public houses creating fortress like conditions for the advancing British army.</p> <p>Despite pouring troops from the South Staffordshire Regiment into the area in the latter days of Easter week, the British army suffered substantial casualties and made little advance in almost hand to hand fighting with the Irish Volunteers.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@stewreddin/dublin-1916-the-north-king-street-massacre-db57ba1e05b"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>