Rag,
You call a entire nation "fools"

No. I call the rebel leadership fools. Practically the entire nation was against them.
They called them worse than fools on the streets of Dublin.

Jim,
No personal attack Keith - your statements are racist, plain and simple

You lie. You can not put up any such statement from me.
You resort to personal attack because your arguments have all been knocked down and you ignorance of the actual history exposed.

The Famine, the deliberate ...

We are not discussing the famine here, but when we did I pointed out that not all historians blame Britain, and it emerged that only a minority do or ever have.

This thread is about the rising.