Joe, sorry I keep defending myself, but Rag and Jim keep making false accusations that I can not allow to stand.

it seems to me that credible evidence has been presented here that there were significant shortcomings in the Home Rule bill that had passed Parliament.

I do not recall any such evidence presented.
Could we have a reminder please?

Thompson
The idea that people in an occupied country should be loyal to the occupying power is distinctly odd.

It is isn't it, but true all the same.
They volunteered in huge numbers to fight for Britain in WW1 and even after independence in WW2!
Because it was not an occupation. Ireland was an integral part of the UK just as Scotland and Wales were and still are.
Their independence movements never refer to an occupation, so why do you?

Jim, I have only expressed contempt for the 1916 rebels, never for the people of Ireland who shared my contempt for them.(Sorry Joe)