The people of Dublin spat at and threw things at the rebels as they were led away. All this changed when a military court sentenced the leaders to death and had them executed.nikkiboy wrote:I watched the history of Ireland documentary a few months ago and they said the same thing.micko wrote:In his book Rules of Engagement, Colonel Tim Collins says that one of the biggest mistakes the British ever made was to execute the leaders of the 1916 rising. Cracking read lads.
Do politicans not study history, they seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.