Jim, that was by Gene Kerrigan, who is a journalist and novelist!

Keith - you have been swamped with evidence -

None at all that substantiates your wild claim, "The Brits were shelling unarmed non combatants - including women and children - "

Just give us your strongest piece of evidence for it.

Raggy,
1. Show us your evidence for such a claims.

The rebels were reviled by Dubliners. Do you deny that they did?
I quoted the historian Catrionna Pennel who researched the mood of Irish people after the invasion of Belgium, and I pointed out that over 200 000 Irishmen volunteered for the British Army.

2. Are these the same people who considered the leaders martyrs.

Yes. But not during the rising or in its aftermath. Only after the executions.

3. Are these the same people who by 1919 were fighting a War of Independence.

Some certainly. But for the rising it would not have happened, and probably not the Civil War either. (Plenty of firing squad executions during the civil war Jim. Is it only murder if Brits do it?)