From the archive
The Easter Proclamation, 1916
The Proclamation read outside the GPO on Easter Monday 1916, one of the Club's charter documents.
Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation outside Dublin's General Post Office on 24 April 1916. Signed by seven leaders of the Rising, it proclaimed an Irish republic.
It is the first of the five documents on which the Club bases its charter. The scans preserve the document as historical evidence; the wording should not be rewritten as though it were a new statement.