Lego enthusiast recreates Easter Rising battleground using 50,000 pieces

It may have taken years to reconstruct after the Easter Rising, but a Lego enthusiast took 24 months and used 50,000 pieces to recreate Dublin’s main 1916 battleground.

Paul Derrick’s masterpiece is now on display in the rebuilt GPO, complete with rebels inside the landmark building from which the Army of the Irish Republic led the week-long rebellion.

Among them is a moustachioed James Connolly, lying gravely injured on his stretcher — just one of the painstakingly detailed features in the Monaghan man’s work.