Kevin Myers: FF celebratory plans for the Easter Rising a load of claptrap
Once again, Fianna Fail -- the party which has virtually destroyed this Republic -- is talking about "celebrating" the 1916 Rising. But this event divided Ireland more bitterly than it was already divided.
Hundreds died, and it led to a variety of civil wars -- between the IRA and the RIC, the IRA and the new Northern government, northern nationalists and loyalist paramilitaries, the IRA and southern unionists, and finally, Anti- and Pro-Treatyites. Thousands of unionists then fled the virulently Catholic and nationalist culture that emerged within the Free State. After which Golgotha, not a single declared aim of the Rising had been achieved. Ah yes. So much to celebrate . . .
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