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Thread #45911   Message #3786426
Posted By: Jim Carroll
21-Apr-16 - 04:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
"There was never going to be conscription in Ireland, rising or no rising."
The British attempted to introduce forcible conscription in 1918 - had Easter Week not happened, they would have introduced it earlier - why wouldn't they have.
"That did not stop 210 000 Irishmen joining the British Army in WW1."
And those same people turned around and kicked the world's strongest Empire out on its arse when it displayed its true nature.
I suggest you read this selectively and see why Irishmen joined up (and not just pick the bits that suit you) - it represents what all those who joined that bloodbath did - not the jingoistic claims that it was for the cause of freedom.
You were given six reasons why men (and in some cases boys) enlisted - you ignored them then and you will ignore them now.
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/irishhistorylive/IrishHistoryResources/Articlesandlecturesbyourteachingstaff/IrelandandtheFirstWorldWar/
Can't blue clickie it
I take your silence on your contempt for the Irish as confirmation
Jim Carroll