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This view shows the damage caused by the Irish Republican Army's armed rebellion against British rule that took place on Easter Day in 1916, known as the Easter Rising, in Dublin, Ireland. At right is the O'Connell Bridge continuing into O'Connell Street with the O'Connell monument, at left, and the ruined area around the Eden Quay. The 1916 Easter Rising is one of the most famous chapters in Ireland's struggle for independence. Yet over the years, the Irish have been ambivalent about celebrating it, fearing to glorify an act of violent rebellion as long as the IRA was waging its campaign of bombings and shootings in Northern Ireland. But with peace in the troubled province has come a profound change of heart, and on Sunday, for the first time since the 1970s, the Irish government will formally commemorate the Rising. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo)