It {conscription} was an issue immediately the war broke out

Hardly possible as in August 1914 it didn't exist as far as the British were concerned - they only introduced it themselves in 1916!!

I have invented nothing - I don't.

Then respond to the request for you to show the post where either Keith A or myself have ever stated "that Ireland was not entitled to independence".

The fires started by the looters on the evening of the 24th April were left to burn and they were not contained in any way, rebels had fired on unarmed policemen and driven them from the area - the Dublin Fire Brigade took the hint. The looters, looted in Dublin in 1914 for exactly the same reason they looted in London not so long ago - they looted because they thought that they could get away with it. The looting stopped because Martial Law was declared on the 25th April 1916 and a curfew came into force whereby anybody abroad on the streets at night between 19:00 and 05:00 was likely to be shot.

Buildings were shelled primarily because they were fighting positions occupied by the rebels, as previously stated, that made them legitimate targets. The rebels themselves set fire to buildings to hinder the troops arrayed against them.

Indiscriminate fire for what? Five days in the middle of a capital city with a population of roughly 305,000, a city enmeshed in the violence of a rebellion that resulted in less than 500 deaths all told, I would say that that fire could not by any stretch of the imagination be described as anything even approaching indiscriminate.

And all this destruction because seven men decided to highjack an organisation and railroad their agenda through irrespective of the wishes of the executive committee of that organisation. Had those seven men just sat on their hands that Easter Ireland would have been a united independent country by 1931. It would not have seen the destruction wrought in 1916, it would not have had to endure the war of independence or the damage caused by the IRA in the dying throws of the civil war.