CHIEF CHARACTERS
 (in alphabetical order)

ASQUITH, H. H., British Prime Minister.

BERNSTORFF, Count von, German Ambassador in Washington D.C.

BIRRELL, Augustine, Chief Secretary of Ireland.

BRUGHA, Cathal, second in command to Eamonn Kent.

CAPUCHIN FATHERS who attended the rebels in jail: Albert, Aloysius, Augustine, Columbus.

CARSON, Sir Edward, Dublin barrister and MP, leader of Loyalists in Ulster.

CASEMENT, Sir Roger, former British consular official.

CHILDERS, Erskine, yachtsman, supporter of Home Rule.

CHRISTENSEN, Adler, Norwegian sailor, friend to Casement.

CLARKE, Kattie, wife of Tom Clarke.

CLARKE, Tom, tobacconist, brains of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

COLBERT, Cornelius, unit commander of Irish Volunteers.

CONNOLLY, James, Union boss, first in Belfast, then Dublin.

CRAIG, James, MP, chief organizer of Loyalists in Ulster.

DE VALERA, Eamon, maths teacher, Commandant of Irish Volunteers.

DALY, Edward (Ned), Commandant of Irish Volunteers.

DALY, John, Ned’s uncle and former prison companion of Tom Clarke.

DEVOY, John, Head of Clan na Gael, the Irish-American Revolutionary Organization, in New York.

DILLON, John, Irish Nationalist MP.

FRENCH, General Sir John, British GOC Home Forces.

FRIEND, General L. B., British GOC in Ireland.

GRIFFITH, Arthur, journalist and founder of Sinn Fein.

HALL, Captain (later Admiral) Reginald, Chief of Admiralty Intelligence.

HEUSTON, Sean, unit commander of Irish Volunteers.

HOBSON, Bulmer, Irish Republican Brotherhood, secretary of Irish Volunteers.

KENT, Eamonn, Commandant of Irish Volunteers.

LOWE, General W. N. C., British Army Commander in Dublin.

MacBRIDE, John (Sean), fought as Major in Irish Brigade against British in Boer War.

McDERMOTT, Sean, former barman, chief organizer of Irish Republican Brotherhood.

MacDONAGH, Thomas, academic, Brigadier of Irish Volunteers.

MacNEILL, John (Eoin), academic, Chief of Staff of Irish Volunteers.

McGARRITY, Joseph, Irish-American from Philadelphia.

MALLIN, Michael, silk-weaver, Chief of Staff of Citizen Army.

MARKIEVICZ, Constance Countess, on staff of the Citizen Army.

MAXWELL, General Sir John Grenfell, sent to put down the rebellion.

MONTEITH, Robert, Irish Volunteer, sent to Berlin to assist Roger Casement.

NADOLNY, Captain on German General Staff.

NATHAN, Sir Matthew, Under-Secretary of Ireland.

NORWAY, Hamilton, Secretary of the Post Office in Dublin.

O’FARRELL, Elizabeth, chosen to hand over rebel surrender.

O’FLANAGAN, Father John, Curate of Pro-Cathedral, Dublin.

O’RAHILLY, Michael Joseph, a co-founder of Irish Volunteers.

PEARSE, Patrick, Headmaster of St Enda’s, an Irish school.

PEARSE, Willie, Patrick’s younger brother.

PLUNKETT, Joseph, strategist of Irish Volunteers.

PRICE, Major Ivor, Chief Intelligence Officer in the Castle.

REDMOND, John, Chairman of Irish Nationalists at Westminster.

SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON, Francis, (alias Skeffy), pacifist.

SHEEHY-SKEFFINGTON, Hanna, Skeffy’s wife, suffragette.

SPINDLER, Lieutenant Karl, skipper of the German arms boat.

STACK, Austin, leader of Irish Volunteers in Tralee.

THOMSON, Basil, Head of CID at Scotland Yard.

VANE, Major Sir Francis Fletcher, British officer sympathetic to Home Rule.

WIMBORNE, Lord Ivor, British Viceroy in Ireland.

ZIMMERMANN, Artur, German Under-Secretary at Foreign Office.