The Easter Rising, place by place

The Rising caused at least 485 deaths, the figure of the Glasnevin Trust as cited in Wikipedia's Easter Rising ↗ article. More than half were civilians, and about 40 were children under 17.

Wounded: more than 2,600. Arrested afterwards: 3,430 men and 79 women. The article puts most civilian deaths down to British artillery, incendiary shells and machine guns in a built-up city. It also records deliberate killings of civilians by both sides, among them the North King Street killings and the shootings at Portobello Barracks by British soldiers, and civilians shot by rebels at Jacob's and St Stephen's Green.

• General Post Office (GPO), O'Connell Street
  Led by Patrick Pearse (Commander-in-Chief) and James Connolly (Commandant). Headquarters battalion, about 400 Volunteers and Citizen Army from Liberty Hall; Tom Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada and Joseph Plunkett were there.
  Pearse read the Proclamation outside. Shelling set the building alight; the garrison tunnelled to Moore Street, where Pearse agreed to surrender on Saturday 29 April.
• Four Courts
  Led by Edward (Ned) Daly. 1st Battalion.
  Held the Four Courts and surrounding streets. The North King Street killings of 28–29 April, in which the article says soldiers killed fifteen male civilians, happened in this area.
• Mendicity Institution, Usher's Island
  Led by Seán Heuston. A company of the 1st Battalion.
  Across the Liffey from the Four Courts.
• Boland's Mill and surrounding buildings
  Led by Éamon de Valera. 3rd Battalion.
  The article notes de Valera excluded Cumann na mBan from his garrison. Its outpost at Mount Street Bridge, seventeen Volunteers, held up British reinforcements on Wednesday 26 April; the article says the fighting there caused up to two-thirds of British casualties for the week.
• Jacob's biscuit factory
  Led by Thomas MacDonagh. 2nd Battalion.
  The article lists Jacob's as one of two places where rebels shot and killed civilians who tried to attack them or pull down barricades.
• South Dublin Union and Marrowbone Lane distillery
  Led by Éamonn Ceannt. 4th Battalion.
  Site of the present-day St James's Hospital. The only substantial fighting of the first day was here; Cathal Brugha was badly wounded. A nurse, Margaret Keogh, shot by British soldiers here, is believed to have been the first civilian killed.
• St Stephen's Green
  Led by Michael Mallin. Part of the headquarters battalion (Citizen Army), with Constance Markievicz.
  Trenches were dug in the Green. Whether Markievicz shot a DMP constable on the first morning is disputed; her Wikipedia article gives both accounts.
• City Hall, beside Dublin Castle
  Led by Seán Connolly. A Citizen Army contingent.
  An unarmed police sentry, James O'Brien, was shot dead at the Castle gate; the article says some accounts make him the first casualty. Seán Connolly was killed by a sniper, the first rebel death. British troops retook City Hall by Tuesday morning.

Garrisons and commanders as Wikipedia's Easter Rising article names them; each garrison also put out smaller outposts nearby. The surrender order was carried out by Elizabeth O'Farrell.

Eoin MacNeill's countermanding order, and the loss of the German arms ship, meant that most of the country did not rise. Here is what Wikipedia records, county by county.

• Ashbourne · Meath · Friday 28 April 1916
  Led by Thomas Ashe, with Richard Mulcahy. About 35 Fingal Volunteers attacked the RIC barracks; a five-hour fight followed with an RIC convoy. The Easter Rising article gives eight RIC killed and 18 wounded; the Battle of Ashbourne article gives 14 RIC killed. Both give two Volunteers killed and five wounded, and a civilian fatally shot. The Fingal Battalion had earlier taken the barracks at Swords, Donabate and Garristown in County Dublin.
• Enniscorthy · Wexford · Thursday 27 April to Sunday 30 April 1916
  Led by Robert Brennan, Séamus Doyle and Seán Etchingham. 100–200 Volunteers held the town, rising to up to 1,000 by Saturday; they blockaded the RIC barracks rather than storm it and occupied Vinegar Hill. They stood down only after two officers were taken to Pearse in Arbour Hill to confirm his surrender order.
• East of Galway city, around Athenry · Galway · Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 April 1916
  Led by Liam Mellows. 600–700 poorly armed Volunteers attacked the RIC barracks at Clarinbridge and Oranmore without taking them; Constable Patrick Whelan was shot dead at Carnmore crossroads. They fell back to Moyode and Limepark and dispersed.
• Castlebellingham · Louth · Monday 24 April 1916
  Led by Not named in the article. Volunteers shot dead an RIC man near the village and took 15 RIC men prisoner. Volunteers in Louth and Meath could not join Ashe's men before they surrendered.
• Castlelyons (Bawnard House) · Cork · 2 May 1916, after the surrender in Dublin
  Led by The Kent brothers: Thomas, Richard, David and William. The RIC came to arrest the family; a gunfight of about four hours followed (the Easter Rising article says three). Head Constable William Rowe was killed and Richard Kent fatally wounded. Thomas Kent was executed in Cork on 9 May; David's death sentence was commuted. Thomas Kent's own article opens with the wrong date for the gunfight (9 May); the Castlelyons article gives 2 May.
• Coalisland and Carrickmore · Tyrone · Easter Sunday 1916
  Led by Patrick McCartan; Denis McCullough brought 132 men from Belfast. Volunteers mustered but dispersed without fighting after the countermanding order.
• Creeslough · Donegal · Easter 1916
  Led by Daniel Kelly and James McNulty. Mobilised, then dispersed without fighting.
• Cork city (Sheares Street) · Cork · Easter Sunday to Wednesday 1916
  Led by Tomás Mac Curtain. About 1,200 Volunteers mustered but dispersed after nine contradictory orders from Dublin; after a stand-off, Mac Curtain agreed under pressure from the clergy to hand over arms.
• Glenquin Castle, near Killeedy · Limerick · Easter 1916
  Led by Not named in the article. 300 Volunteers assembled and took no military action.
• Meelick, Oatfield and Cratloe to the Shannon · Clare · Easter Monday 1916
  Led by Michael Brennan. 100 Volunteers waited for orders and for the arms of the Casement shipment; neither came.

Birthplaces are from each person's own Wikipedia article. By county of birth: Dublin 6, Limerick 2, Tipperary 1, Wexford 1, Mayo 1, Galway 1, Leitrim 1. Two were born outside Ireland (Clarke in England, Connolly in Scotland), and Thomas Kent's article does not give his birthplace. The courts martial were held in secret and without defence, which Crown law officers later ruled illegal, the article says; after Connolly's execution the remaining death sentences were commuted.

Read in October 2026: Wikipedia's Easter Rising ↗ (garrisons, the Rising outside Dublin, casualties, executions), Battle of Ashbourne ↗, Castlelyons ↗, Constance Markievicz ↗ and the article of each person executed. Where two articles disagree, we say so: Thomas Kent's article dates the Castlelyons gunfight to 9 May, the day he was executed, while the Castlelyons article gives 2 May; the Easter Rising article says the fight lasted three hours, Kent's own article four. What happened at St Stephen's Green on the first morning, and whether Markievicz fired the shot that killed Constable Lahiff, is disputed. Numbers of Volunteers are the article's approximations.

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