We’re coming up to the 100th year anniversary of the Belfast uprising (1916), put down with intense ruthlessness by the British. Anger runs very deep; memories are very long, there.
An uprising during time of war?Of course it got put down hard,what else would you expect?
Oddly, the Brits shot or hanged the organizers of that uprising ... all except Eamon DeValera and Michael Collins, who went on to lead the Irish Republic movement. Collins managed a guerilla group that assassinated dozens of British troopers and Irish Constabulary. DeValera became the first President of the Republic of Ireland.
Dublin, not Belfast.