Now let me get this right. Anyone who writes a biography writes indisputable fact - your take on the Blake chap who wrote about Bonar Law.

So does that mean that what Ruth Dudley Edwards wrote about Patrick Pearse is indisputable fact? Latent homosexual, latent paedophile, unhinged, a man with a death wish. Are these all indisputable facts Jim? Or are they just her opinions.

Ruth Dudley Edwards - Ireland grows up

The threat of conscription was a factor involving every country under the influence of Britain from August 1914."

Please find and provide a link to the Military Service Act 1914, one must have existed if conscription was a factor. I can direct you to one for Australia which they themselves cobbled together in 1911. But those conscripts could only be called upon to defend Australia itself.

No conscription anywhere in Britain or in the British Empire in 1914
No conscription anywhere in Britain or in the British Empire in 1915
Conscription on the mainland of Great Britain from March 1916, no conscription anywhere in the British Empire in 1916
Conscription in Great Britain in 1917, no conscription anywhere in the British Empire in 1917
Conscription in Great Britain in 1918, no conscription anywhere in the British Empire in 1918

Give me the name of anyone conscripted in Ireland between August 1914 and November 1918.

Had the Easter Rising not happened and the brutish behaviour of Britain sickened the Irish people as a whole compulsory conscription would have been introduced. - Pure speculation on your part - merely your opinion - NOT FACT.

By the way Jim you do not need guns to drill, you do not need guns to train.