Exercises :

1) William Blackstone was born in 1723. He was an English judge, jurist and professor. His more well-known writ is a treaty about the Common Law entitled Commentaries on the laws of England. The success of this treaty made him a very rich man. He died in 1780. Lord Mansfield (William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield) was a British barrister, who was also politician and judge. He's known above all for his reform of English law. He was born in 1705 and died in 1793. William Pitt (the Younger) was also a British politician, born in 1759. He became the youngest Prime minister at the age of 24. His prime ministerial came during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Thanks to these events, he saw very early the need to reform the English parliamentary. He died in 1806. Lord Liverpool (Robert Banks Jenkinson) was born on 7 June 1770 in London. He was Prime Minister from 1812 to 1827. During his long tenure of office, he allowed his Cabinet ministers to conduct their duties without overdue interference. He died on 4 December 1828. Oswald Mosley was born in 1896 and died in 1980. He was a British politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. He was a member of Parliament for Harrow from 1918 to 1923 and for Smethwick from 1926 to 1931.

2) The Easter Uprising was an insurrection staged in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916. The Rising was mounted by Irish republicans with the aims of ending British rule in Ireland and establishing the Irish Republic. It was the most significant uprising in Ireland since the rebellion of 1798. Organised by the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood the Rising lasted from Easter Monday 24 April to 30 April 1916. Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolteacher and barrister Patrick Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBan, seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic