Major-General SirJohn Maxwell arrived in Dublin to take command of theBritish Army, 12,000 of whose troops were now in the city; the centre was cordoned off.
1 May – The Easter Rising collapsed. Sir John Maxwell, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces, announced that all involved in the insurrection had surrendered.
12 May – Two more leaders,Seán Mac Diarmada andJames Connolly were executed. Connolly, who was wounded in the fighting, was strapped to a chair and shot. Meanwhile, Prime MinisterH. H. Asquith arrived in Dublin for a week-long visit.
15 May – The trial of Roger Casement began in London. He was charged with high treason for his part in the Easter Rising.
17 May –Thomas O'Dwyer, Roman CatholicBishop of Limerick, refused a request to discipline two of his curates who expressed republican sympathies. He reminded General Maxwell that he had shown no mercy to those who surrendered.[2]
21 May –Daylight saving time began for the first time throughout theUnited Kingdom as people put their clocks forward one hour. The purpose was to reduce the number of evening hours, to save fuel.
26 June – Roger Casement went on trial at the Royal Courts of Justice on a charge of treason. He had been stripped of his knighthood.
23 July – Thousands attended an open-air meeting at thePhoenix Park in Dublin to discuss the British government'sIrish partition proposals. It was the first open-air meeting since martial law was proclaimed.
3 August – Roger Casement was hanged for high treason atPentonville Prison in London.
19 August –The Irish Times in Dublin issued a 264-page handbook detailing the events of the Easter Rising; a second edition was published by the end of the year.[4]
1 October –Time in Ireland: Dublin Mean Time (25 minutes behindGreenwich Mean Time) was made the same as British time from 2am today under the terms of the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916.
29 October – John Redmond demanded the abolition of martial law, the release of suspected persons, and that Irish prisoners be treated as political prisoners.
18 November – The Battle of the Somme ended after 141 days, stopped by foul weather and with thousands of Irish casualties.
21 December – In theBritish House of Commons, it was announced that all Irish prisoners were to be released.
25 December – The last group of Irish prisoners, 460 men from Reading Gaol, arrived in Dublin.Seán T. O'Kelly andArthur Griffith were among those released.
7 August – There was a large audience at the Bohemian Theatre in Dublin for the first screening of the Film Company of Ireland's first film,O'Neill of the Glen.
September – W. B. Yeats' poemEaster 1916 was written.
9 September –Thomas Kettle, writer, barrister, Nationalist politician and economist, killed in action (born 1880).
19 October –Alexander Young, soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1901 at Ruiterskraal, South Africa, killed in action (born 1873).
25 October –John Todhunter, poet and playwright (born 1839).
2 November –Frank Hugh O'Donnell, writer and nationalist politician (born 1846).
^Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter, 1916: a complete and connected narrative of the Rising, with detailed accounts of the fighting at all points in Dublin and in the country.
