Steve, all that has happened since the rising has been effected by the rising.
My case has been very simple.
The rising was unnecessary because home rule was already agreed and assured.
That is a plain fact.
All those hundreds of deaths, including the cold blooded murders of Dubliners by the rebels, achieved nothing.

Also that the rebels had no mandate from the people of democratic Ireland.
They appointed themselves as leaders and shot anyone who challenged them.
The people were against them. That is a plain fact.

It is highly probable that but for the rising a peaceful transition to home rule and full independence was achievable, sparing Ireland the bloody horror of the civil war and thousands more Irish dead.

Jim,
It is true that I do not discriminate between Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants.
That is the mark of a sectarian bigot.