Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Dublin, 1917, facsimile of 1916 original, Riley and Ephemera Collection, State Library Victoria

Read publicly by Padraig Pearse outside the Dublin General Post Office at the outset of the Rising on 24 April 1916, the Proclamation enshrines the principles of ‘religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens’, including (radically) women. Its seven signatories were executed within weeks of their surrender on 28 April.