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Thread #45911 Message #3785715
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
17-Apr-16 - 08:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: Easter Rising
If you read your history, you will find the the Home Rule Bill was defeated yet again and in Jully, 1914,
It is you who needs more reading Jim.
The Government of Ireland Act 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5 c. 90), also known as the Home Rule Act, and before enactment as the Third Home Rule Bill, was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom intended to provide home rule (self-government within the United Kingdom) for Ireland. It was the third such bill introduced by a Liberal government in a 28-year period in response to the Irish Home Rule movement.
The implementation was only postponed because Britain, including Ireland, were embroiled in a desperate war for their very survival and losing.
Compared to your 1500 rebels, over 200 000 Irishmen volunteered for the British Army to fight WW1.
Betrayed and stabbed in the back with weapons supplied by the enemy.