A friend of mine still lives at home, age 47. The problem is that some day his parents will die and he'll be in trouble then as he'll be living in the house he grew up in and all alone, he'll have to make a transition then and he might be too old to do it.
Republicans were free to express republican views in the Ireland of 1916. They even had their own newspaper.
Since that time the only people in Ireland who try to stop people expressing views are republicans, who try to stop non-republicans from expressing their views, through derision and intimidation.
Nobody asked Connolly to campaign against the imperialist mass slaughter. All that was asked of him was that he didn't plunge Dublin into bloodshed, that was his only responsibility. Unfortunately he felt he had a right to to so, despite having no mandate of any kind.
A lot of people romanticise violent struggle (I don't mean you by the way) but if they were actually to be there in Dublin in 1916 they would be horrified by the reality of the violence and come to the conclusion that 'there must be a better way than this'. And there was a better way than that.
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And what better woman to lead it!