Sorry Terri - no valid verification of your claims, no response - don't ring us, we'll ring you.
And don't demand an answer until you start giving them yourself.
"Anyhow, my thinking on all this is starting to gel"
That's a nice, handy summing up of the chronological reality of Irish history Joe.
I've just had a dip into my 'Chronology of Irish History' (one of those handy little books you can still pick up for half-nothing in many bookshops – also available on 'British', 'Scottish' and 'World' history – all indispensible little aides memoires in my opinion.
The timeline between 1798 to the Independence is an interesting one to work through.
You have Emmet's rising in 1803, the Thresher agitation in Longford (1807), the Ribbonmen, Rockites and Whiteboys (1820s), the Tithe War in Kilkenny (1831) and masses and masses of political activity right up the Great Famine in 1845.
The years following The Famine with the evictions and the sheer callous brutality of Britain's response to the Famine brought about more or less permanent struggle, including the Fenian Rising in 1867, followed by the Land Wars, which actually continued right up to and in some places, after Independence.
Even up to the Eve of the Rising, there was an active anti-recruitment campaign in cities such as Dublin and Cork.
Easter Week didn't come as a spur-of-the-moment whim – it was part of long line of protests and revolts dating back to over a century earlier.
To say the Irish people didn't want change is utter nonsense – some may have been happy to get World War One over certainly – that was the Redmondite line, but most people were under no illusion that Britain would give up Ireland and go quietly – they wouldn't and they didn't, and that was what Easter Week was about.
Jim Carroll