thank you jim carrol that says it all.

i want to add that the plain fact that sein fein won a landslide election as soon as they got the chance shows the irish people supported the rebellion. this is a plain fact. the writers now depended on to show a lack of support were part of the old quisling ruling elite or their toadies.

but the anglos have a quible, a hair to split! so starvstion doesn't count, a quible a hari to split so torture, invasion and every form of brutality doesn't count, it's not like the torture starvation and murder by the paras, done by the bad people like quadaffi, because they have a quible and a hair ti split.and of course if the british hadn't been brutal to the rebels there would have been no election win and no popular support--WHEN WERE THE BRITSH EVER ANYTHING BUT BRUTAL? in keyna? whoops there they did all the troture hanging and concentration camp thing, in bengal? opps there they let millions starve, in america, where they made war on women children and food supplies to get rid of the native(as oft quoted at the tine "nits make lice") on and on brutality after brutality.

it's hang wringingly awfull that the rebellion was more destructive than necessary, so awfull. what about the hundreds of years of british destruction, but that isn't a quible.

what the general deniers are saying is two fold. first there is no connection between events.   things aren't related . just because the same poeple and state that conquered ireland,(or india or canada) was the one torturing or murdering, doesn't mean there is any mental connection between those who conquered and those who tortured(see the residential schools for the very worst), no connection between events and peolple. and secend they believe that the fact that the anglos got an econimikc benefit from smashing irish culture and people has no evidential value that any anglos meant any malice or even had any awareness of the abuses. it's a lot like nazi holocoust deniers, dimminish deflect and deny and you have to prove prove prove all over again.

well thankfully they aren't as powerfull as they once were, but now americans are taking up the sword of empire. godess help us if trump gets elected.

what it shows clear as day isthat anglo culture is racist and militaristic to the core, abd isn't likely to change soon. these bigots will buy any quibble and any jingoistic lie if it flatters their endless pride and coddles their hate