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Thread #45911   Message #3786675
Posted By: Jim Carroll
22-Apr-16 - 01:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
"
I only argue two points"
WHAT?
Not again!!
You have argued every single aspect of this uprising up to the point of maing out that those celebrating it as gullible morons (racist to say the least)
The Home Rule was stamped to death by the Irish Parliamentarians because it had been altered - you have had the Lloyd George quote.
It was viciously attacked in Parliament by British Tories
It was not actually accepted by Britain until 1922 following a war of Independence and then in a deformed state.   
Each time you repeat this nonsense you confirm the stupidity of your case.
How do you no it had no support - did people carry out a survey to find what the country as a whole thought - where are your figures.
A few Dubliners around the GPO at the end of the Rising protested - many more assisted the rebels throughout the fighting, geiving them shelter and misleading the soldiers.
Many hundreds of Dubliners used the Rising to loot busnesses and shops in the vicinity - in fact the rebels attempted to stop this from happening.   
Within months of the Rising the people totally supported the Rising and mounted the Irish War of Independence.
How exactly do you suggest that the Rebels should have called for support for the Rising - a public ballot maybe?
Jim Carroll