I will not discuss anything but the Rising here.
My case is that it was unwanted and unnecessary.

Unwanted.
"Why Was The Easter Rising So Unpopular" by John Gibney, currently Glasnevin Trust Professor of Public History and Cultural Heritage at Trinity College Dublin.

" Many of the insurgents who fought in 1916 recorded the hostility of the families of serving soldiers across the city (some went so far as to say that their British captors had saved them from angry mobs)."

"Alongside this was the fact that the Rising had caused massive death and destruction, and disrupted everyday life in the city; Oscar Traynor recalled how he and his fellow Volunteers were accused by one irate Dubliner of being 'starvers of the people'. Hostility to the Rising on these various grounds was inevitable, and surely understandable"

"Condemnation of the Rising spread far beyond the city in which the vast bulk of the fighting took place."
http://www.independent.ie/incoming/just-why-was-the-easter-rising-so-unpopular-34563527.html

Heather Jones, associate professor in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

"Heather Jones traces how this failed military insurrection against British rule – mounted by a small, unrepresentative minority of Irish republicans – "

"The majority of the nationalist population was satisfied with the passing of the home rule bill in 1912;"

"Even within the ranks of republicanism, the Rising was carried out by a small minority. "
http://www.ippr.org/juncture/commemorating-the-rising-history-democracy-and-violence-in-ireland