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?
Given what it inspired Lenin to do, and what they were duped into giving up in 1972, I just shake my head at the whole thing.