But Raggy in the general scheme of things related to the prosecution of the First World War the Easter Rising meant absolutely nothing, and as far as Jom's - "a handful of ill-trained, ill-equipped volunteer rebels kept the army of the world's richest and mot powerful Empire at arms length for a full week" - that's right Carroll big up the opposition after they have knocked seven bells out of you.

Your handful of ill-trained, ill-equipped volunteer rebels:

1: Had numerical superiority at the beginning of the rising and did nothing with it.

2: Had been drilled and trained for a period of at least three years.

As for - "the army of the world's richest and mot powerful Empire at arms length for a full week":

1: Initially ~1,000 men and police officers that increased to 4,000 troops all of them raw recruits straight out of training in England.

2: Historically this went the same way as most attempted rebellions in Ireland or Scotland. The rebels initially make gains against the local forces and militia, but as soon as the regulars arrive on the scene the rebellion is toast.

3: The fact that the conflict was fought in the centre of a city with a population of over 305,000 the fact that fatalities were held to less than 500 shows amazing restraint compared to what the armed forces of the world's richest and most powerful Empire could have done had it actually deployed an army to do the work. Besides Jom an army wasn't available they were doing far more important things elsewhere.