The standoff on Sheares St: Cork’s ‘Pain of Easter Week’

Despite being cleared of any dereliction of duty, the failure of the Cork Brigade to take part in the rebellion weighed heavily on the minds of Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney, writes Gerry White

ON EASTER Sunday, April 23, 1916, more than 1,000 members of the Cork Brigade of Irish Volunteers had mobilised under the command of Tomás MacCurtain and marched to eight concentration points in the county.

Their original mission to take possession of arms that were to be supplied by Germany