Fergie,
"It was Britain's illegal and immoral occupation of Ireland and the aggressive and oppressive subjugation of the Irish people that was the root of the troubles in Ireland and the Irish people had every right to oppose that occupation. They did so in arms in 1916 and their right to do so does not have to be justified to historical revisionists".

Do you agree with this statement?

No I do not.
Bad things happened everywhere to everyone hundreds of years ago.
The Irish people wanted home rule but did not feel victims of "aggressive and oppressive subjugation."
The rising was deeply unpopular and unwanted, as I have shown.

Mpdette,
Executing its leaders, especially a man who could not stand up, was a huge mistake and enhanced the Republican cause more than the Rising itself could ever have done.

I agree.
Had they just been locked up they would have continued to be seen as a contemptible joke.
The rising would have been forgotten, and a transition to full home rule would have been peacefully achieved and not one day later.

Thousands of Irish lives spared.