When the IRA decided to have a rising over Easter in 1916, they kicked off proceedings by shooting an unarmed policeman standing on duty outside Dublin Castle. What was his name?

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The first fatality was at 12.10 p.m. that Easter Monday. A policeman named O'Brien was shot dead as he tried to shut the Cork Hill Gate on an advancing party of ten men and nine women, of the Irish Citizens Army. http://www.dublincastle.ie/history16.html I've been unable to find his first name. Mar 19 04, 11:08 AM

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I have found James O'brien who was a British soldier according to http://www.islandireland.com/Pages/history/archives/postcards/easter6.html Sean Connolly(Irish Republican Army), Killed in Action at City Hall, Dublin, Easter Monday, 1916. Only a week before the rising, Sean Connolly of the Abbey Theatre was playing the lead role in James Connolly's new play 'Under Which Flag' in its first performance at Liberty Hall. The play was about an Irishman torn between serving in the Irish or the British army, and ended with Connolly raising a green flag and uttering the words 'Under this flag only will I serve. Under this flag, if need be, will I die.' During the rising, it was Connolly who lead the group that entered Dublin Castle, firing the first shot that killed a British soldier, Castle guard James O'Brien. Connolly's men moved from there to take up a position at City Hall, where Connolly himself was shot while attempting to hoist to the top of the City Hall dome the very same green flag that he had used in the play. The first to kill, he became the first of the Rebels to be killed in the Easter Uprising. Mar 19 04, 11:50 AM

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