"Easter week Rising - 1,250 out of a population of 3.1 million = 0.04%"
Which led immediately to a war of Independence which ended up forcing Britain to the negotiating table and eventually to the collapse of the entire British Empire - not bad for 1,250 rebels.
It's not bad for so few inexperienced and poorly-armed freedom -fighters to have held at bay the army of the most powerful Empire at arms-length for a week either - real Vietcong stuff eh.
A nice example of British justice occurred flowing the rising
" About 3,500 people were taken prisoner by the British, many of whom had played no part in the Rising, and 1,800 (how many did you say took part? of them were sent to internment camps or prisons in Britain."
Jim Carroll