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Easter a century ago was not a time of peace in Ireland. The 1916 Easter Uprising - in which hundreds of people were killed or injured - was an armed rebellion by Republicans to end British rule. Lasting six days, it went largely undocumented, due to the costly and cumbersome nature of photography. But a new exhibition in London is aiming to to show how the then new medium played an important role in informing Ireland's national consciousness that eventually led to independence, featuring rarely seen photos and other images going back to the 1840s.

(Credit: Sackville Street, Dublin, in ruins Credit: Sean Sexton Collection/The Photographers' Gallery, London)

(The Easter Rising 1916: Sean Sexton Collection - The Photographers' Gallery, London from 22 January)