The executions

In all, 16 men were executed for their parts in the Rising and related events.

In Kilmainham gaol, Dublin:

May 3rd: Patrick Pearse, Thomas Clarke, Thomas MacDonagh

May 4th: Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan, Joseph Plunkett

May 5th: John MacBride

May 8th: Sean Heuston, Michael Mallin, Eamonn Ceannt, Con Colbert

May 12th: Seán MacDermott, James Connolly

In Cork Detention Barracks

May 9th: Thomas Kent (for the murder of Head Constable Rowe of the RIC)

In Pentonville Prison, London August 3rd: Sir Roger Casement (for high treason)

More than 3,000 taken into custody

In the immediate period after the Rising more than 3,000 suspected rebels were taken into custody. Almost immediately half of these were released. Of those remaining, 159 men and one woman, Constance Markievicz, were court-martialled. Many more - five women and 1,800 men - were interned without being sentenced.

For a two-month period, the internees and prisoners were split between jails in Wakefield, Glasgow, Stafford, Knutsford, Reading, and Wandsworth before Frongoch camp in north Wales became the main internment camp. Until then it had housed German prisoners of war in an abandoned distillery and crude huts, but these were moved to make way for the Irish prisoners, including Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera.

The gathering of so many rebels in one spot meant that many men learned the guerilla tactics that would be used in the later War of Independence. Because of this Frongoch gained the nickname "University of Revolution".

This was a reason given by new prime minister Lloyd George for the decision before Christmas 1916 to release the internees. By then, concern over conditions in the camp had also led to pressure for their release.

Then, on June 15th 1917, a general amnesty was granted to the remaining Irish prisoners. Put on a train from London, and a boat from Holyhead, they arrived at Dublin's Westland Road station on the 18th.

On that same day Constance Markievicz was released from Aylesbury Prison.