Keith says:

Have you expressed any views on the rising at all?
Do you have any?
You, Steve and Greg only come to the thread to stir up off-topic arguments.
Why do you do that? It is trolling.
Please stop.

He's right. Such posts and the name-calling serve only to carry on the nastiness that has driven so many people away from our BS section, and that made it impossible to leave this thread in the music section. These posts add nothing at all but animosity to the discussion. They convey no information.

I suppose, though, that such animosity may well be a good demonstration of the spirit of the Easter Rising. The "rebels" were so sure of the rightness of their cause, that they saw no purpose in continuing a respectful conversation with the British. The British, at this point, were more than willing to accommodate the wishes of those who demanded independence for Ireland, but the "rebels" believed that only bloodshed would prove the righteousness of their cause.

-Joe-