Raggytash - 31 May 16 - 06:45 AM

"4th September 1914 meeting of the IRB where they decided to stage an insurrection in Ireland while Great Britain was at war with Germany and seek German assistance to mount that insurrection. (Source: Max Caulfield, "The Easter Rebellion", page 18)"

How does that translate as offering support for Germany, seeking assistance for your own ends is not offering support in the way I understand the English language.

Good heavens Raggy are you really that dense?

Try this and see if it makes any sense to you:

In August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Casement and John Devoy arranged a meeting in New York with the western hemisphere's top-ranking German diplomat, Count Bernstorff, to propose a mutually beneficial plan: if Germany would sell guns to the Irish revolutionary and provide military leaders, the Irish would revolt against England, diverting troops and attention from the war on Germany. Bernstorff appeared sympathetic.

Of course Great Britain could have sent the WRI or the Boy Scouts, but do you know what I find amazingly strange are people such as yourself and Carroll who bang on about the wicked Imperialistic Brits the howls of outrage