1916 Easter Rising Conference to take place in Dublin

if it looks at the politics of the people who took part, evrybody wilkl see how the whole ideal of their concept of a Free Ireland was as compared to the antics of the so called republican movement from 1922 onwards, that includes 90% of my family who forgot what a free state should have stood for & debased themselves on a squalid little sectarian war, i find it very hard to believe that anything we come of this, so why bother.

Reading a number of 1916 related history books to prepare for its centenary, I am reminded of just how spectularly audacious the whole Easter Rising thing was. Either the last acts of mad impetuous fools intoxicated with idealism. Or that of a generation with uncommon foresight denied to the contemporary masses. May even have been a variety of religious experience.

I hope their endgame is not to re-write history to suit the kenny and his free State mates

Sounds like a few nonentity academics preening themselves. Give it a miss.

Attorney at Law/Headmaster/Schoolteacher/Irish Patriot Comdt P H Pearse encapsulated the Via Dolorosa that was/is Anglo-Irish h[y]st[e]ry when he wrote: "There are some things much worse than bloodshed. And slavery is one of them!" A peculiar phenomenon of the abolishion of slavery in the Confederate States of America was that many such liberated slaves returned to their southern masters out of a sense of learned helplessness.

It appears as though none of the speakers at this conference is scheduled to discuss the primary objective of the 1916 rising, which wa to obtain full independence "for the whole nation and all its parts. In recent years revisionist historians, partitionist politicians and misleading journalist try to make us believe that the Anglo-Irish Tyraty granted Independence to Ireland, which is NOT the case. The fact is that establishing and upholding Partition was never the goal of the great patriots who signed the Proclamation and paid for it with their lives.