Skip to content
March 26, 2016
Peter
1916 Proclamation , 1916 Rising , Battle of the Bogside , Bengal Famine , Black and Tans , British Commonwealth , Dissident Republicans , Eamon DeValera , Easter Monday , Easter Rising , Easter Sunday , Gerrymandering , Home Rule , James Connolly , Monarchy , O' Connell Street , Padraig Pearse , Republicans , SDLP MBE OBE Irish Republican Nationalism , St. Thomas Aquinas , The Amritsar Massacre , The Auxiliaries , The Conflict in the north of Ireland , The Famine , The GPO , The IRA , The Troubles , Unionists , World war 1 casualties
The 1916 Proclamation supported Irish Independence – those who opposed it supported an empire and the slaughter of millions .
Home Rule, even if it were honoured, was not an alternative. It proposed the creation of an Irish assembly, subordinate to London , and circumscribed powers to protect Protestants.
“The Rising was undemocratic”… say monarchists…
Read more here…
You May Also Like