"Treason Act UK"
For crying out loud Terri - they were not charged with treason - anybody sentenced to be executed has a right by law to be properly charged with the crime he or she is supposed to have committed - that was not done and the trial was an outrage in terms of British civil and military justice - the charge was not treason so they were not guilty of treason.
Hide by any rule-book you wish but until you show that all the rules in that book were applied it was a Kangaroo Court, pure and simple.   
The garbage that they colluded with the Germans is bollocks - they in no way supported Germany - their only contact with them was to take their weapons and nobody has ever attempted to show otherwise - not even you - you just accuse them of collusion.
Now - did the rebels receive a fair trial and was their treatment up to accepted standards?
"Likewise Sir Max Hastings"
I quite agree - I only challenged Hastings on the basis that Keith was demanding qualified historians selling books in real bookshops - he rejected everybody else.
Hastings is a qualified tabloid journalist.
"Coogan is trotting out the same old brainwash myths because he knows they will help sales of his books in Ireland"
Coogan is a principled, dedicated if unqualified historian and is respected as such throughout Ireland, even by his critics, whose main complaint is that he does not keep proper notes and therefore makes mistakes
He is in no way commercially motivated - which sounds like a smear tactic from a desperate man to me.
Keith has yet to produce a single historian to back his case.
Jim Carroll