Irish History

Through my studies of Kevin Myers and his opinion on the Easter Rising, I found him to be very criticing of the topic, 1916 Easter Rising so therefore viewing it as an unsuccessful story. ‘I believe the Easter Rising was an unmitigated evil for Ireland.’ (blackboard)   In his article published in 2000 on the Irish times he tears the Rising, believes it was all a squander of time and the cold- blooded slaughter of innocent people was a dishonour for our country. ‘Virtually everything to do with the rising was horrible, from the homicidal manipulations of the secret society, the Irish Republican Brotherhood’. Through his writings, I found he does not have one good thing to say about the Rising. He goes on and believes it was a discredit for Ireland and that basically it should not be celebrated to this day. He believes that yes the volunteers were brave but it was because of the time warp in which they were in, it was not unusual at this time to be heroic, it was the norm and if you are anyone was stuck in this period of destruction we would do the same thing. Most of Western Europe was in the same difficulty and the majority of all these men had such levels of bravery and courage also. So fundamentally the men and women of the 1916 should not get credit for their heroism because most of the people of Europe were all under similar backgrounds. ‘The men and women of 1916 should have been capable of comparable deeds of gallantry merely makes 1916 parts of the lunacy of the period. It does not make it more laudable’. He thinks Countess Markevicz is a treasured woman but for no reason, she killed an innocent man in a park in cold blood just minutes of the Rising where now today her statue proudly stands when this guiltless man has been forgotten about and says why we should congratulate her for such a catastrophic deed. ‘Amnesia is spread like a blanket over the entire affair’. Andrew Barry was interviewed in the 1980’s; he was part of the Dublin Fusiliers of the time....