"Do you just let it pass and allow the myth to stand,"
No - you argue it out without denigrating an entire nation - you have proved nothing so far and each time you are knocked down you walk away and start something else - a war of attrition.
"aren't you being a bit bullyingly censorious?
No Mike - Keith is the first to cry thread drift whenever he is in trouble and has suggested more than once that those who aren't Britisjh have no right to criticise Britain.
I am suggesting that deliberately inflammatory and racist statements be deleted in order that this discussion can be continued.
There has been a fair amount of interesting and valuable information exchanged here- it would be an awful shame to spoil that.
The Irish people are not stupid and ignorant of their own history and suggest they are reduces this discussion to the Bernard Manning.
Nor was the Easter Rising "Murder, pure and simple" - if anybody wants to discuss looting, rape, torture and mass-murder they need only open a thread on The Black and Tans
I'll be gone from here in the morning; off to Liverpool (no doubt to meet up with some stupid, ignorant fellow-Brits who will be celebrating Easter Week as we are) - I would hate to leave to a deliberately closed thread.
"If you are studying or discussing the period and era of the Easter Rising then what happened afterwards is irrelevant as none of that could have had any bearing on the event under discussion."
Everything that happened after Easter Week - especially the War of Independence and the gun-point signing of the treaty is vital to this discussion - it vindicates the need for and the success and weaknesses of the rising.
To remove such discussion would be simple manipulation.
"Ah but Michel there is the Carroll pecking order to be taken into account"
Nice to see my humour hit home Terri - try Germolene -always good for sore spots.
Jim Carroll