On Saturday the general parade was cancelled by order of Professor MacNeill, chief of the Volunteer organization.

On Monday, against his wish, a portion of the Volunteer force in Dublin, including the battalion specially under command of Pearse and MacDonagh, with the Citizen Army under James Connolly, paraded, scattered through the city and seized certain previously selected points, of which the most important was the Post Office.

From it as headquarters they proclaimed an Irish Republic.

Slight attempts at rising took place in county Wexford, where the town of Enniscorthy was seized, in county Galway, and in county Louth.

At Galway, at Wexford and at Drogheda the National Volunteers turned out to assist in suppressing the rising.