Easter Monday Republic of Ireland it is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died in the Easter Rising which began on Easter Monday 1916. Until 1966, there was a parade of veterans, past the headquarters of the Irish Republican Army at the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street, and a reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. "Śmigus-dyngus" (or "Lany Poniedziałek", the Polish for "Wet Monday") is the name for Easter Monday in Poland and the diaspora. In the Czech Republic it is called "velikonoční pondělí". In Slovakia "veľkonočný pondelok", also called "Šibačka/Polievačka" or "Oblievačka". In
Fenian Rising lack of arms and planning, but also because of the British authorities' effective use of informers. Most of the Fenian leadership had been arrested before the rebellion took place. However, the rising was not without symbolic significance. The Fenians proclaimed a Provisional Republican government, stating, The proclamation preceded the Easter 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic by almost 50 years. it also sheds some light on early Fenianism: it is centred with the ideas of republican democracy; however it is embedded with ideas of class struggle. The proclamation claims that their war was "against the aristocratic locusts, whether English or