[Olog-hai]

The State may become a member of the European Coal and Steel Community (established by Treaty signed at Paris on the 18^th day of April, 1951), the European Economic Community (established by Treaty signed at Rome on the 25^th day of March, 1957) and the European Atomic Energy Community (established by Treaty signed at Rome on the 25^th day of March, 1957). No provision of this Constitution invalidates laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by the State necessitated by the obligations of membership of the Communities or prevents laws enacted, acts done or measures adopted by the Communities, or institutions thereof, from having the force of law in the State.

— Third Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland, 1972

Since they threw it all away in 1972, I see nothing to commemorate.

[Vaquero]

Since the IRA is a bunch of commies now.....who cares

[Snickering Hound]

Brits put down the rebellion with heavy machine guns and artillery.

Different times.

[IronJack]

An utter disaster for the Independence movement. The rebellion was put down almost immediately, demonstrating that a frontal assault on British institutions would never achieve an Irish Republic. The leaders were tracked down and hanged.

All except two who would play the most critical roles in establishing a Free Ireland: Michael Collins, who became a guerrilla leader without peer, and Eamon DeValera, whose battlefield was Parliament and the bank.

[Zionist Conspirator]

An attempted Communist revolution by James Connolly and his comrades.

Why do so many FReepers support socialism when white people "benefit?"

[Laser_Ray]

The revolution amounted to a frontal assault executed with poorly trained and lightly-armed riflemen against numerically superior forces packing artillery, machine guns and a primitive but operational air force to call on with nowhere to retreat in case of failure, against a foe that has a long history of using collateral punishment without hesitation...all while a war for England’s existence was raging right on her damn doorstep.

You couldn’t have won that kind of engagement short of divine intervention. So what exactly am I supposed to commemorate? The fact that the Irish bloodline was improved by a mass Darwin Award?