Editing Easter Rising (section)

=== Reaction of the Dublin public ===
At first, many Dubliners were bewildered by the outbreak of the Rising.{{sfn|Townshend|2006|p=265}} [[James Stephens (author)|James Stephens]], who was in Dublin during the week, thought, "None of these people were prepared for Insurrection. The thing had been sprung on them so suddenly they were unable to take sides."{{sfn|Stephens|1992|p=57}}{{efn|''[[The Irish Times]]'', for example, "scrambled" to report the Rising while maintaining their intended coverage of the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth, thus imploring readers to revise his work, along with other errands, during the "enforced domesticity" of martial law.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/shakespeare-at-war/2AB00C797DC3E85816015040D654B117 |title=Shakespeare at War: A Material History |date=2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-51748-2 |editor-last=Lidster |editor-first=Amy |location= |pages=124 |doi=10.1017/9781009042383 |editor-last2=Massai |editor-first2=Sonia}}</ref>}} Eyewitnesses compared the ruin of Dublin with the destruction of towns in Europe in the war: the physical damage, which included over ninety fires, was largely confined to Sackville Street.{{Sfn|Flanagan|2015|p=32}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Corráin |first=Daithí Ó |date=2014 |title='They blew up the best portion of our city and ... it is their duty to replace it': compensation andreconstruction in the aftermathof the 1916 Rising |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/irish-historical-studies/article/abs/they-blew-up-the-best-portion-of-our-city-and-it-is-their-duty-to-replace-it-compensation-andreconstruction-in-the-aftermathof-the-1916-rising1/532A63B459DAA79C98E4FCDFFE7850F8 |journal=Irish Historical Studies |language=en |volume=39 |issue=154 |pages=272–295 |doi=10.1017/S002112140001909X |s2cid=159572446 |issn=0021-1214}}</ref> In the immediate aftermath, the Irish government was in disarray.{{Sfn|Maguire|2013|p=38}}

There was great hostility towards the Volunteers in some parts of the city which escalated to physical violence in some instances.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|p=143}} Historian [[Keith Jeffery]] noted that most of the opposition came from the dependents of British Army personnel.{{sfn|Kennedy|2010|p=286}} The death and destruction, which resulted in disrupted trade, considerable looting and unemployment, contributed to the antagonism of the Volunteers, who were denounced as "murderers" and "starvers of the people" – the monetary consequences of the Rising were estimated to be at £2,500,000.{{sfnm|1a1=McGarry|1y=2010|1p=252|2a1=Morrissey|2y=2019|2p=132}}{{Efn|Soldiers' wives were reported to be starving during the Easter Week; The Dublin
Metropolitan Police sought to provide bread and milk.{{sfn|Walsh|2020|p=180}}}} International aid was supplied to residents – nationalists aided the dependents of Volunteers.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Dháibhéid |first=Caoimhe Nic |date=2012 |title=The Irish National Aid Association and the Radicalization of Public Opinion in Ireland, 1916—1918 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23263270 |journal=The Historical Journal |volume=55 |issue=3 |pages=705–729 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X12000234 |jstor=23263270 |s2cid=159490772 |issn=0018-246X}}</ref> The British Government compensated the consequences to the sum of £2,500,000.<ref name=":1" />

[[File:Banner on Liberty Hall 12 May 1917.jpg|thumb|Commemoration of Connolly's execution, 12 May 1917]]

[[File:Waiting on Westland Row (8505718647).jpg|thumb|Crowds in Dublin waiting to welcome republican prisoners released in 1917]]

Support for the rebels did exist among Dubliners, expressed through both crowds cheering at prisoners and reverent silence.{{sfn|McGarry|2010|pp=252–256}}{{sfn|Kennedy|2010|p=288}} With martial law seeing this expression prosecuted, many would-be supporters elected to remain silent although "a strong undercurrent of disloyalty" was still felt.{{sfn|Kennedy|2010|p=288}} Drawing upon this support, and amidst the deluge of nationalist ephemera, the significantly popular ''Catholic Bulletin'' eulogised Volunteers killed in action and implored readers to donate; entertainment was offered as an extension of those intentions, targeting local sectors to great success.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book |title=Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising |publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=2015 |editor-last=Godson |editor-first=Lisa |pages=92 |editor-last2=Brück |editor-first2=Joanna}}</ref>{{Efn|Historian Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid wrote that "the widespread popularity of these special events was perhaps the most tangible of the shift in the politics."<ref name=":3" /> [[Peter Hart (historian)|Peter Hart]] posited that the souvenirs which quickly circulated after the Rising were ultimately "more influential than revolutionary ideology and writing".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baylis |first=Gail |date=2019 |title=What to Wear for a Revolution? Countess Constance Markievicz in Military Dress |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/41/article/744750 |journal=Éire-Ireland |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=94–122 |doi=10.1353/eir.2019.0015 |s2cid=214122157 |issn=1550-5162}}</ref>}} The ''Bulletin''{{'}}s Catholic character allowed it to evade the widespread censorship of press and seizure of republican propaganda; it therefore exposed many unaware readers to such propaganda.<ref name="press"/>