The irony is, that the foundations on which Irish Republicanism is built, is shooting people in the back. The 'modern' Republican movement was borne out of people who would prefer to shoot policemen in the back or in their beds, or the old and wounded in cold blood, than to face an enemy on equal terms. It was, and remains, inherantly cowardly and inherantly ignorant. Those involved were predominatly cowards, and almost to a man, misguided, miscreant, ungrateful urchins, and they should be remembered as such.
As an esteemed member on here, Barrie Patrick Lochrie, once opined, the art of not biting is not to bite.
Equal terms? Im sure there are a good many who would have liked to have engaged on 'equal' terms. But what im sure you mean by 'equal' terms is, in fact, conventional military terms. ironically it is the Easter Rising itself where Irish rebellion engaged on conventional military terms for the last time because through the Rising it became abundantly clear that these were not equal terms. From then on it was decided to engage on our terms alone. It is an inherently pragmatic decision and works only when those fighting have a groundswell of popular support among the local populations. What you can then deduce from that is that these people therefore do carry some form of popular mandate for their actions of resistance. You're snivelling attempts to belittle these men are laughable
They need no belittling. The planned Easter rising was ignored, because those involved were universally regarded as a joke. A handful of communist nutcases, bent on establishing a socialist republic in europe, brainwashing a minority group of those who didnt have the balls to go to war to fight for their country. What hadnt been appreciated though, was that they would go about the place, shooting unarmed war heroes, and murdering innocent civilians in cold blood. They were the 20th century equivalent of islamic suicide bombers, except they didnt have the bottle to kill themselves, just anyone who happened to be there. What the joke is, is that these turncoat scumbags and halfwits are regarded as in some way heroic.
such staggering ignorance. Here is a little tale of the South Staffordshire regiment which blows both your 'war heroes' and 'rebels killing civilians' narrative to bits http://www.theirishstory.com/2012/04/13/the-north-king-street-massacre-dublin-1916/#.VvPPefmLSUk Around 90% of all civilian deaths during the Rising were directly caused by British actions. But that tends to happen when you indiscriminately shell a city with a gunboat
If ever a comment could encapsulate the revisionism and fallacy of irish nostalgia, and highlight the cowardice and skulduggery of the those who perpetrated the appalling criminal acts of the so called 'easter rising', that would be it. In trying to claim that the British army were the guilty party, and the cowardly republican murderers, the innocent victims, you have cited an article which refers to the fact that : 1. Soldiers sent in to defend the city, armed with bayonets, were ambushed and killed by people hiding with guns, and 2. When action was taken against those who had a) committed treachery against the Crown in the middle of a war b) in doing so murdered unarmed civilians in cold blood, and shot those acting on behalf of the legitimate authorities who were armed with bayonets, all of a sudden said armed murderers tried to hide in the guise of being civilians. Of course those killed were civilians. They were also cold blooded murders. Not only did they demonstrate their cowardice in killing in cold blood, but they showed it again, in claiming to be civilians when actions were taken to stop their murderous actions. Your comment demonstrates their cowardice beautifully.
