Liberty Hall shelled during Easter uprising 1916
Photograph from The History of The Great War volume 5 published 1918 illustrations bureau photographer uncredited. Info from wiki:Standing on Beresford Place and Eden Quay, near the Custom House, the original Liberty Hall was a hotel before it became James Connolly's personal fortress in Dublin. During the 1913 Dublin Lock-out a soup kitchen for workers' families was run there by Maud Gonne and Constance Markievicz.[3] Following the outbreak of the First World War a banner reading "We Serve Neither King nor Kaiser, But Ireland" was hung on its front wall, and Connolly's newspaper The Irish Worker was printed inside. The newspaper was shut down by the British government for sedition under the Defence of the Realm Act. It was replaced for a short time by a paper called The Worker until that too was banned. Connolly edited a third paper, The Workers' Republic, from 1915 until the Easter Rising in 1916. Until the Easter Rising Liberty Hall also served as a munitions factory, where bombs and bayonets were made for the impending rebellion. It was on the street in front of the building that the leaders of the Rising assembled before their march to the General Post Office on Easter Monday. They left the building vacant throughout Easter Week, a fact unknown to the British authorities, who chose the building as the first to be shelled. It was completely levelled by British army
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
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