BATTLE OF MOUNT STREET BRIDGE

Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Easter 1916 rising took place during the Battle of Mount Street Bridge. An inexperienced British regiment, the Sherwood Foresters were involved in combat with a seventeen Irish rebels under the command of Lieutenant Mick Malone who would die in the battle. Over two days, the British troops engaged in a number of full frontal assaults against a well entrenched group of rebels.

The fighting at Mount Street resulted in almost two thirds of British casualties in Easter week. A total of four officers and 216 other ranks were killed or wounded during the engagement.

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