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Thread #45911   Message #3786444
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
21-Apr-16 - 08:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Fergie, the issues of the Land Wars and Land League were all settled amicably and finally in the 19th Century.
It was not an issue by 1916.

The DMP were an Irish Catholic organisation. Not British.

The Batchelors Walk massacre was not an example of British oppression of the Irish.
The army was called out because German weapons were being smuggled into the country.
It was wrong that they fired on a crowd when they were returning to barracks, but they were not acting on higher orders. It was a heat of the moment thing.