Jim, I was obviously being too modest about my knowledge of history.
I clearly knew a lot of things about the rising that you did not, and what you thought you knew has been shown to be myth.

You now know that home rule was assured by Act of Parliament, making all the Irish bloodshed in the rising and what followed wholly unnecessary.
You now know that the people did not support the rising, and that the rebels murdered unarmed Irish people in cold blood.