Well, Joe Offer, thank goodness I wasn't part of that crowd who were calling each other "stupid." Yes there is good information in this thread, but there is also misinformation, information that can't be relied on and information predicated on political prejudices. 'Twas ever thus, of course. The Easter Rising has had a profound effect on Irish politics and the Irish people on both sides of that confounded border for a hundred years. Our opinion of the men who instigated it should not be predicated on whichever side our sympathies lie with. Too much of that happens in this thread and that is precisely how bad history is written. I don't see you attacking that. There. You have my take on it, which I've already stated several times in this thread in spite of your protestations that I haven't.