Notes

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   has been the centenary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. The historical significance of the Rising has been well described elsewhere, but it might be worth complementing such accounts with both a wider and a narrower view. On the wider view, the methods used to put it down and to punish its perpetrators were meant to deter future rebellions, not just in Ireland but across the Empire. It is no tribute to the British colonial occupation of Ireland - Britain's oldest colony - to recognise that more have died and suffered even worse at British hands or from British policies, in other parts of the former Empire. ↩