Keith - you have been swamped with evidence - your response is to ignore it, trawl through the net and offer opinions as facts
I could furnish you with a few more who possibly agree with you, but they are no more than opinions, as are yours.
Patsy McGarry is a religious journalist for the Irish Times and no more qualified to express an opinion on the Rising than anybody else.
You are doing what you always do - presenting your own bigotetd opinion then scraping around for supporters.
Address the facts that have been put before you - or better still - go read a book.
Your arrogance in declaring that you have never read a book on Ireland and are not interested enough in the subject ever to do so, then to dismiss the Irish population as ignorant and gullible supporters of murder is beyond belief.
Terrytoon
Some idea of what exactly was happening - from an eye witness account to be found in 'The Scrap' by Gene Kerigan, based on the experiences of Republican, Charlie Saurin.
You can throw as many of these as you like and they will be matched one hundredfold by what was being done by the well-armed and well trained Brits.
Give us a break and address the documented facts, not your version of them.
Jim Carroll