I expressed my views in my first post, but Jim rubbished them so I backed them with the findings of historians.

Here are your first two posts on the thread, Keith.

Subject: RE: Easter Rising
From: Keith A of Hertford - PM
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:13 AM

This BBC TV programme also questions the idea that Home Rule was advanced at all by those acts of violence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b075f1f2

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Subject: RE: Easter Rising
From: Keith A of Hertford - PM
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:15 AM

"In 1916, at the height of WW1, armed insurgents rose up against the British in Dublin, the empire's second city. Using secret documents, cabinet papers, intelligence reports, military orders, diaries and letters, Michael Portillo pieces together the story of this uprising from the British point of view.

Was Dublin just another battle at a time of war where military justice was immediate and brutal or, by their actions, did the British men who wrote these documents hasten the end of an empire? Did an unlikely band of Irish rebels, led by playwrights and poets, do more to advance the cause of Irish freedom in five days than nationalist politicians had done in the previous 50 years, or did they damage the cause and condemn the island to a history of violence? Michael looks for the answers. This is the story of Ireland's Easter Rising as told by British politicians, soldiers, spies and bureaucrats."

So, a link to a program by Michael Portillo and a write up of that program with nary an opinion between them! Not indulging in those little pastry products stuffed with pig meat again are we Keith? Or is it, as I suspect, a new meaning of either views or first post that no one but you has considered yet? As to

Have you expressed any views on the rising at all?

No, have you? and

Do you have any?

Yes, have you?