April 24 marks 110 years since the start of the Easter Rising in Ireland.
The uprising was organized by Irish republicans with the aim of ending British rule and establishing an independent Irish Republic.
On Easter Monday in 1916, members of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army seized key buildings in Dublin, including the General Post Office (GPO).
Patrick Pearce reads the Proclamation of the Irish Republic on the steps of the Post Office, declaring the country free and sovereign.
After six days of heavy urban fighting and artillery bombardment by the British army, the rebels surrendered unconditionally.
A total of 485 people died in the uprising, of whom 260 were civilians and 82 were rebels from the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army.
Most of the civilians who died fell victim to artillery fire or were mistaken for fighters in the urban conditions of Dublin.
About 2,600 people were wounded.
After the fighting ended, the British authorities executed 16 of the leaders of the uprising (including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly) in Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin and Cork Gaol.
The death toll was high for a week-long conflict, largely due to the fact that most of the fighting took place in densely populated areas of Dublin.
Despite its military failure, the execution of the leaders of the uprising sparked a wave of public discontent that eventually led to the Irish War of Independence.
In 1919, the War of Independence broke out between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and British forces, which ended in 1921 with a ceasefire and negotiations.
The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed on 6 December 1921 and led to the establishment of the Irish Free State in December 1922.
The partition of the island follows. Six counties in the northeast (now Northern Ireland) choose to remain in the United Kingdom.
Initially, the country was a dominion, with the British monarch remaining the formal head of state.
On 18 April 1949, Ireland officially severed its last ties with the British monarchy and was declared a fully independent republic.