http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/anonn-is-anall/seizing-the-gpo-in-1916-made-military-sense/ The 1916 leaders seized what would have been today the country’s vital telecommunications centre – in a strategic and sophisticated plan close off British lines of command and allow the Irish rebellion to succeed, writes Peter Berresford Ellis en Copyright © 2006 Peter Berresford Ellis 2006-02-12T16:06:54Z Connolly Publications Ltd, 244 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR David Granville Peter Berresford Ellis, 1916 Rising, James Connolly, E Gomersall daily 1 2001-04-13T12:00Z