In April 1916 neither side knew who the victors would be. You were trying to claim something that could not be guessed at, at the time.

Ah but Raggy you didn't ask about who thought that they would win in April 1916 did you, you asked the following question:

Did either side in 1916 know who would be dictating terms at the end of the war?"

To which I answered first half of 1916 the Germans might have been confident that they would win. By December they would not have been so confident while France and Great Britain would have had grounds for optimism, serious damage inflicted on the German Army forced to retreat on the western front, dismissal of their Commander, realisation in the German High Command that having given it their best shot they could not defeat either Great Britain or France, the German Highs Seas Fleet confined to port where it would remain for the rest of the war. Great Britain's new citizen army had just forced the best army in the world to retreat.

This statement of mine is perfectly true and requires no guessing and no crystal ball at all:

But the thing that really does amaze me is that the clowns who set all this in motion back in 1916 claiming that if their "Provisional Government" stood for a week, then they would have a place at the Peace talks and Peace Treaty negotiations at the end of the war, obviously didn't realise that in describing the Germans as their "Gallant Allies in Europe" their Irish delegation would have been sitting on the wrong side of the table at those peace talks and treaty negotiations - they like Germany would be having terms dictated to them.