100 years ago today, the executions of the 1916 leaders began

Photo-Padraig Pearse surrendering to British Major-General William Henry Lowe.

Perhaps the most famous photograph of the 1916 Easter Rising shows Padraig Pearse surrendering to British Major-General William Henry Lowe near the corner of Moore and Parnell Streets on Saturday, April 29. It is a photo that encompasses many things: the receding power of the British Empire and the new indefatigable Ireland. It shows, in several ways, the theatricality of the Rising, and also the role that women would come to play in the coming War of Independence and their struggle for equality for the rest of the 20th century.
On the left is General Lowe and to his is right is his son John Muir Lowe, who, under the stage name of John Loder, went on to act in films ("How Green Was My Valley") and, most famously, to marry Hollywood sex siren Hedy Lamarr. On the right is Pearse, “President” of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Volunteers. Hidden behind Pearse (except for her shoes) is GPO nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, who brokered the surrender (in some photos, in a sign of the times, her feet were actually airbrushed out of the photo).
This is the last known photograph of Pearse. It is the beginning of the end of the Easter Rising—the executions are about to begin.

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Comment by James Power on May 3, 2016 at 2:07pm

 GPO nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, who brokered the surrender

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