On April 24, 1916 — the day after Easter Sunday — some 1,600 Irish nationalists rose up against British rule in what became known as the Easter Rising rebellion.

The uprising was suppressed by the British Army. Thousands were imprisoned, and more than a dozen were executed by a firing squad. But across the Atlantic, Irish-Americans kept the flames of this movement going.

"The centrality of Irish America and Irish New York ... to the rising is now absolutely established," says Joe Lee, a professor of Irish studies at New York University and director of NYU's Glucksman Ireland House. "No New York, no Irish America, no rising. Simple as that."

Today, The Takeaway talks with Irish-Americans in New York City about the historic Easter Rising rebellion.