The ridiculousness of your suggestion has just struck me Terri
By the end of the Rising there were 19,000 (have no idea where your 4,000 was conjured up from) British troops in Dublin, some new recruits, but the vast majority trained in weapon use, cavalrymen, heavy-gunners, a battleship and highly trained and log-serving officers - against how many?
Those Rebels who were trained, did so without weapons, whiche were not available, and without experienced officers - their 'training' was little more than a few Sunday afternoons marching with broom-handles over their shoulders and listening to lectures in The Dublin Hills.
The Irish Citizen Army (the 'trained' rebels) was a small group of trained trade union volunteers from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union established in Dublin for the defence of worker's demonstrations from the police. It was formed by such seasoned and battle-scarred leaders as James Larkin, James Connolly and Jack White on 23 November 1913. Other prominent members included Seán O'Casey, Constance Markievicz, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and P. T. Daly. In 1916, it took part in the Easter Rising
Those were the ones who started the dominoes of Empire tumbling and gave inspiration to those who were part of its eventual fall.
You really do make this up as you go along, don't you?
Jim Carroll