On the other hand--look at the music context. In 1916 the state of the art recording was an Edison cylinder. Commercial radio, if it existed, would have been slim. No TV. You want music, play it. You get tired of that song, write one. Now, you can't even get away from music in elevators. Plus, if you can see the boom on TV, there's not as much incentive to sing about it, like they had to do to make sure the next generation remembered the Easter Rising. I think there are a lot of social reasons why the change came about, without getting into the merits of the IRA's target selection in each particular case. (I'm with Stan Rogers, "House of Orange" on that one.)

Chicken O'Charlie