Authors: The Proclamation was written by 7 men:\u00a0Thomas J. Clarke,\u00a0Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada,Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, \u00c9amonn Ceannt, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett. \u00a0Thomas Clarke, the most influential of the 7, was a extreme revolutionary, borderline terrorist.<\/p>\n
Context: \u00a0Written in 1916, in the middle of World War I, the Irish rose up in the Easter Rising. \u00a0In which, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a devout faction to Irish Independence.<\/p>\n
Language: \u00a0The document uses simple diction, as it was to be read to the masses. \u00a0It also has a militaristic tone, due to the fact that the uprising was violent.<\/p>\n
Audience: \u00a0This was written to the people of Ireland as a persuasive piece to join their cause for an independent Ireland, separate from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Intent: The Proclamation of the Irish Republic was written in order to evoke nationalism within the populous, and to encourage others to rise up with the Irish Republican Brotherhood.<\/p>\n
Message: \u00a0The Proclamation established a number of new orders that are to be brought out once the nation is independent including universal suffrage, equal rights to men and women, and that the government is to be a republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Authors: The Proclamation was written by 7 men:\u00a0Thomas J. Clarke,\u00a0Se\u00e1n Mac Diarmada,Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, \u00c9amonn Ceannt, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett. \u00a0Thomas Clarke, the most influential of the 7, was a extreme revolutionary, borderline terrorist. Context: \u00a0Written in … Continue reading