Editing Easter Rising (section)

== Casualties ==
[[File:Easter Rising memorial Deansgrange.jpg|thumb|Memorial in [[Deans Grange Cemetery|Deansgrange Cemetery]], where various civilians and members of the Irish Volunteer Army, Irish Citizen Army and British Army are buried]]
The Easter Rising resulted in at least 485 deaths, according to the Glasnevin Trust.<ref name=necrology>{{cite web|url=http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/__uuid/55a29fab-3b24-41dd-a1d9-12d148a78f74/Glasnevin-Trust-1916-Necrology-485.pdf | work = Glasnevin Trust |title=1916 Necrology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214221924/http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/__uuid/55a29fab-3b24-41dd-a1d9-12d148a78f74/Glasnevin-Trust-1916-Necrology-485.pdf |archive-date=14 December 2017}}</ref><ref name=Glasnevin>{{cite web|url=http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/news/1916-list/ |title=1916 list |website=Glasnevin Trust |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405042053/http://www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/news/1916-list/ |archive-date=5 April 2017}}</ref><ref name=sh>{{cite book|title=Sinn Fein Rebellion handbook, Easter, 1916 |date=1916 |page=[https://archive.org/details/sinnfeinrebellio00dubl/page/52 52] |publisher=Irish Times |url=https://archive.org/details/sinnfeinrebellio00dubl}}</ref>
Of those killed:
* 260 (about 54%) were civilians
* 126 (about 26%) were U.K. forces (120 U.K. military personnel, 5 [[Volunteer Training Corps (World War I)|Volunteer Training Corps]] members, and one Canadian soldier)
** 35 – Irish Regiments:-
*** 11 – Royal Dublin Fusiliers
*** 10 – Royal Irish Rifles
*** 9 – Royal Irish Regiment
*** 2 – Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
*** 2 – Royal Irish Fusiliers
*** 1 – Leinster Regiment
** 74 – British Regiments:-
*** 29 – Sherwood Foresters
*** 15 – South Staffordshire
*** 2 – North Staffordshire
*** 1 – Royal Field Artillery
*** 4 – Royal Engineers
*** 5 – Army Service Corps
*** 10 – Lancers
*** 7 – 8th Hussars
*** 2 – 2nd King Edwards Horse
*** 3 – Yeomanry
** 1 – Royal Navy
* 82 (about 16%) were Irish rebel forces (64 Irish Volunteers, 15 Irish Citizen Army and 3 [[Fianna Éireann]])
* 17 (about 4%) were police<ref name=necrology/>
** 14 – Royal Irish Constabulary
** 3 – Dublin Metropolitan Police

More than 2,600 were wounded; including at least 2,200 civilians and rebels, at least 370 British soldiers and 29 policemen.<ref>Foy and Barton, page 325</ref> All 16 police fatalities and 22 of the British soldiers killed were Irishmen.<ref>''1916 Rebellion Handbook'', pp. 50–55</ref> About 40 of those killed were children (under 17 years old),<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.thejournal.ie/joe-duffy-1916-children-2465591-Nov2015/ |newspaper= TheJournal.ie |title= 40 children were killed in the 1916 Rising but they are barely mentioned in our history |date= 29 November 2015 |access-date= 7 April 2016 |archive-date= 18 April 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160418053325/http://www.thejournal.ie/joe-duffy-1916-children-2465591-Nov2015/ |url-status= live }}</ref> four of whom were members of the rebel forces.<!--Charles Darcy, James Fox, John Healy, James Kelly--><ref>{{cite web|url=http://static.rasset.ie/documents/radio1/joe-duffys-list-of-children-killed-in-1916-rising.pdf |title=Joe Duffy's list of Children Killed in 1916 Rising |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422022859/http://static.rasset.ie/documents/radio1/joe-duffys-list-of-children-killed-in-1916-rising.pdf |archive-date=22 April 2016}}</ref>

The number of casualties each day steadily rose, with 55 killed on Monday and 78 killed on Saturday.<ref name=necrology/> The British Army suffered their biggest losses in the [[Battle of Mount Street Bridge]] on Wednesday when at least 30 soldiers were killed. The rebels also suffered their biggest losses on that day. The RIC suffered most of their casualties in the [[Battle of Ashbourne]] on Friday.<ref name=necrology/>

The majority of the casualties, both killed and wounded, were civilians. Most of the civilian casualties and most of the casualties overall were caused by the British Army.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=184–185}} This was due to the British using artillery, [[Incendiary ammunition|incendiary shells]] and [[heavy machine gun]]s in built-up areas, as well as their "inability to discern rebels from civilians".{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=184–185}} One Royal Irish Regiment officer recalled, "they regarded, not unreasonably, every one they saw as an enemy, and fired at anything that moved".{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=184–185}} Many other civilians were killed when caught in the crossfire. Both sides, British and rebel, also shot civilians deliberately on occasion; for not obeying orders (such as to stop at checkpoints), for assaulting or attempting to hinder them, and for looting.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=184–185}} There were also instances of British troops killing unarmed civilians out of revenge or frustration: notably in the North King Street Massacre, where fifteen were killed, and at Portobello Barracks, where six were shot.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=186–187}} Furthermore, there were incidents of [[friendly fire]]. On 29 April, the [[Royal Dublin Fusiliers]] under Company Quartermaster Sergeant [[Royal Dublin Fusiliers#Guinness brewery killings|Robert Flood]] shot dead two British officers and two Irish civilian employees of the [[Guinness Brewery]] after he decided they were rebels. Flood was court-martialled for murder but acquitted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dublin-fusiliers.com/battaliions/5-batt/5th-easter-rising.html |title=Royal Dublin Fusiliers website – 5th Battalion RDF during the Easter Rising |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161106173438/http://www.dublin-fusiliers.com/battaliions/5-batt/5th-easter-rising.html |archive-date=6 November 2016 |access-date=21 March 2016}}</ref>

According to the historian [[Fearghal McGarry]], the rebels attempted to avoid needless bloodshed. [[Desmond Ryan]] stated that Volunteers were told "no firing was to take place except under orders or to repel attack".{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=176–177}} Aside from the engagement at Ashbourne, policemen and unarmed soldiers were not systematically targeted, and a large group of policemen was allowed to stand at Nelson's Pillar throughout Monday.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=176–177}} McGarry writes that the Irish Citizen Army "were more ruthless than Volunteers when it came to shooting policemen" and attributes this to the "acrimonious legacy" of the Dublin Lock-out.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=176–177}}

The vast majority of the Irish casualties were buried in Glasnevin Cemetery in the aftermath of the fighting.<ref name=necrology/><ref name=Glasnevin/> British families came to Dublin Castle in May 1916 to reclaim the bodies of British soldiers, and funerals were arranged. Soldiers whose bodies were not claimed were given military funerals in [[Grangegorman Military Cemetery]].