remarkable how many of us have quoted something from the Easter Rebellion; I agree with Bassen about the Foggy Dew but the line that gets me is "Britannia's sons with their long range guns." Lenin had the cruiser Aurora and won, Pearse and Connolly had nothing and lost the battle, till their ghosts won the war just a few years later. katlaughing, where can I get a book on Pearse's poetry? I have come to the Easter rebellion backward from friends who got me interested in James Joyce & then told me I had to understand Irish history to start to understand the Wake. . . should we start a separate thread here? PETE