https://easterrisingstories.com/2018/12/09/the-story-of-john-blimey-oconnor-and-the-london-irish-in-1916/
The transmitter, before the DeForest Triode was widely used for modulated transmission,was CW only and sent out news of the uprising in morse code which was picked up by several people, including the British,and news of the uprising was passed on to news agencies. Ronan's grandfather was fataly wounded from a British machine gun post while leading a charge to establish a new HQ for the rebels after the GPO was on fire after being heavily bombarded with inecendaries. There is a street and monumentin Dublin,now called O'Rahilly Parade, where he fell at the corner of Moore Street and Henry Steet. WB Yeats wrote a poem about the event. See: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-o-rahilly/
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/orahillys-charge-1916-rising
