I am curious as to were you gain your information from. If it is from a reliable source, which is what you demand from other people, then fine tell us what the source is. If you read it on the back of your cornflakes packet it is not.

So some simple questions for you to answer.

1. Where do your figures come from.
2. Where do the almost 1 million come from.
3. What does that almost 1 million make as a percentage of the total   population of Ireland as it was in 1916.

The problem I have terribrandy is that I think your figures are a figment of your imagination.