Creator
Photographic commemorative postcard
Title
Sean Connolly.
Date
1917
Description
At the time of the Easter Rising, part-time actor Sean Connolly was starring in a play at the Abbey Theatre called Under Which Flag, written by rebel leader and fellow socialist James Connolly. The play employed a green flag as a prop and Connolly, as a captain for the Irish Citizen Army, took the flag from the theater and tried to plant it on the roof of Dublin’s City Hall. He was shot by a sniper’s bullet, the first Irish combatant killed during the rebellion.
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