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Thread #45911   Message #3787084
Posted By: Jim Carroll
25-Apr-16 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
Subject: RE: BS: Easter Rising - April 24-29, 1916
How many do you want
No heavy artillery in Dublin
Wealthy pre-word War One Liverpool
Democratic Britain in the early 1800s
The obscene profits on ceramic poppies
Te withering away of the State being part of Marxist doctrine.
I asked you for a link to your claims on the weapons sizes - and answer came there none.
Your habit of going into purdah whenever you are challenged is well-known - and you never - never link your claims.
You make your pronouncements then do a runner, which is what I said
We all make mistakes, but nobody actually makes things up..
The Home Rule Bill was actually kicked out in July 1916 by the Redmondites in Parliament because it had been altered, making Partition permanent, and was eventually accepted at gunpoint in 1922 after two years of War of Independence - that forced acceptance led to a further year of Civil War.
I asked Keith if he had any problem with this fact - he demurred -perhaps you will be more forthcoming
The Curragh was a Mutiny according to the dictionary definition of the term - a threat to obey orders, whether the carried out that threat is immaterial - the defied a Government order, which is why it was, and to an degree, it is known as The Curragh Mutiny.
You were given this but you seem to have retired to you room in a sulk.
Yours in anticipation
Jim Carroll