The Irish wouldn’t have sacrificed their leaders for nothing; Britain was never going to give it up. To this day it is against the law for a Catholic to sit on the throne of England; that speaks volumes.
Neither Germany or Britain is independent anymore; I’d prefer Germany leading the EU than Britain.
How many priests did the rebels kill? That is the hallmark of all communist revolutions...
They did indeed sacrifice their leaders for nothing. Britain did indeed give it up eventually, but it would have happened sooner if not for WWI.
Just like Eamon de Valera sacrificed Ireland’s independence for nothing when he signed the Third Amendment to the Republic’s constitution back in 1972, which puts European law supreme above Irish law. (The Irish were lied to in that referendum also.)
It’s far, far worse and far, far sleazier than one can imagine. (And the priests didn’t die primarily because the rebels failed. People like Bobby Sands expounded the IRA’s goals of a “socialist republic” of Ireland too.)