Yes Rag.
The guns were fired directly, not just at the occupied buildings but at the actual windows the rebels fired from.

Jim,
Had Ireland not risen, Britain would have exercised its right to send
Irish youth to the front.

Nonsense Jim. Ireland was excluded from conscription before the rising.
No shortage of volunteers though.

The Home Rule was stamped to death by the Irish Parliamentarians because it had been altered - you have had the Lloyd George quote.
It was viciously attacked in Parliament by British Tories

More nonsense Jim.
The British parliament passed the act before the rising, and Ireland was quite content with it .
What happened after the rising was the fault of the rising.

The Rising did not have popular support.
The Home Rule Bill had already been passed.

You deny both but they are established, hard, historical facts.
What does that make you Jim?