How many leaders of the Easter Rising were executed?

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Patrick Pearse and 14 other leaders of the rebellion were court-martialed and executed by British authorities for their roles in the Easter Rising. Though the uprising itself had been unpopular with most of the Irish people, these executions created a backlash against the British authorities and turned the dead republican leaders into martyred heroes.