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The Easter Rising

  • 16-04-2017 01:26AM
    #1
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭


    So how many of us can say honestly that we had a family member in the easter rising ?
    I can't but I know about 40 people that say they have, if we went by word of mouth there'd easily have been about five hundred thousand in the rising

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  • #2
    frag420
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Who cares?

    have an egg!!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
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    Don't know, if they did, they're dead now!


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    frag420 wrote: »
    Who cares?

    have an egg!!

    You're good at that aren't you, everyone knows I only like cake

    :cool:

    22/25



  • #5
    A2LUE42
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    On which side?


  • #6
    jamesbere
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    I'm not good with crowds but I'd say there was 5 million at it


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  • #7
    Tigger
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    uch wrote: »
    So how many of us can say honestly that we had a family member in the easter rising ?
    I can't but I know about 40 people that say they have, if we went by word of mouth there'd easily have been about five hundred thousand in the rising

    I did but he was a great uncle
    Considering my grandfather had 7 brothers who could have each had on average around 4 offspring that's 32 people at my mothers generation
    Then if they had on average 3 kids that's arond 100 at my generation
    My sons generation would have around 2.5 kids per family so that's 250 at his generation so that's 7+32+100+250 or around 300 people claiming a relation all based on that one uncle
    So three hundred people saying they had a relation in the rising means around 1 person


  • #8
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Tigger wrote: »
    I did but he was a great uncle
    Considering my grandfather had 7 brothers who could have each had on average around 4 offspring that's 32 people at my mothers generation
    Then if they had on average 3 kids that's arond 100 at my generation
    My sons generation would have around 2.5 kids per family so that's 250 at his generation so that's 7+32+100+250 or around 300 people claiming a relation all based on that one uncle
    So three hundred people saying they had a relation in the rising means around 1 person

    I Love the logical way you put that, fair play, so maybe they're not all lying

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  • #9
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #10
    Junkyard Tom
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    Thanks goodness for the vision of the Rising Leaders or the whole country could have ended up like a poorer and more violent version of six counties in the north east.


  • #11
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    I wouldn't think any of them 102 that arrived in 1610 had anything to do with the rising to be honest

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  • #12
    The_Valeyard
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    uch wrote: »
    I wouldn't think any of them 102 that arrived in 1610 had anything to do with the rising to be honest

    I'm not saying aliens. ....

    But.....


  • #13
    Erik Shin
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    I had 2 relations in the rising...They were British soldiers :D


  • #14
    hairyslug
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    I married into Pearses family, chances are my father's family were the ones on the outside firing in.


  • #15
    mikemac2
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    Sure my relations were going to get the Titanic but they missed the connection out of Queenstown/Cobh

    Funny thing is half of Ireland in 1912 missed the Titanic too so the barstoolers in your local pub will tell you


  • #16
    Noddyholder
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    jamesbere wrote: »
    I'm not good with crowds but I'd say there was 5 million at it

    Who gave you them figures?

    The Garda


  • #17
    Noddyholder
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    The majority of the Irish in America went across on famine ships and other unhumam vessels, but I know you know that already, you just trying to get a little snigger in there eh, nice one don't give up your day job.


  • #18
    Allinall
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    I was in Thomond Park in 1978 for the Munster - All Blacks game.

    Does that count?


  • #19
    maryishere
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    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Sure my relations were going to get the Titanic but they missed the connection out of Queenstown/Cobh

    Funny thing is half of Ireland in 1912 missed the Titanic too so the barstoolers in your local pub will tell you

    When they surrendered and were being marched away, there were far more people who lined the streets and shouted and spat at the rebels for destroying Dublin / being traitors and causing an uprising when 100,000 Irish men were at the front in France, than there were rebels in the GPO.


  • #20
    maryishere
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    Noddyholder wrote: »
    Who gave you them figures?

    The Garda

    lol. Our gubberment is not much better.


  • #21
    Erik Shin
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    maryishere wrote: »
    When they surrendered and were being marched away, there were far more people who lined the streets and shouted and spat at the rebels for destroying Dublin / being traitors and causing an uprising when 100,000 Irish men were at the front in France, than there were rebels in the GPO.

    Proper order too


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    I do. My great aunt (great grandaunt? Not sure exactly how far back) was a telegraphist working in the GPO and was there on the day of the Rising. In a letter she mentioned how they were working away, up on the second floor overlooking the street, when they heard the sound of glass smashing in the street.

    She recounts how they all ran to the window to look at the street and saw the rebels running into the building itself. They made their way up to her, telling people to leave, and asked all the women to grab their jackets, go to the drawing room, and were then asked to to home.

    In the letter she described the rebels as being gentlemanly, even quite apologetic about having to ask everyone to leave, and I believe she said "lovely Padraig Pearse".

    I always loved that idea.. That you have these rebels storming a building before a big battle and they're all so polite about it all.


  • #23
    farmerwifelet
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    Two of my great great uncles. One brother was a rebel, one was in the british army and a third was a pacifist. They never fell out with each other over the rising and the civil war. Years after they were all in the house together and the one from the british army was laughing as he was the only one with a pension.

    On my father's side his great uncle was shot and killed by rebels in sligo when he came home on leave from the british army in his uniform.


  • #24
    A Little Pony
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    That was a time when people actually had strong beliefs and fought for what they believed in. Still glad the British Army slapped em.


  • #25
    Yourself isit
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    Noddyholder wrote: »
    The majority of the Irish in America went across on famine ships and other unhumam vessels, but I know you know that already, you just trying to get a little snigger in there eh, nice one don't give up your day job.

    ?

    He didn't say anything about the famine ships (long after the mayflower) either way.


  • #26
    Yourself isit
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    A Little Pony wrote: »
    That was a time when people actually had strong beliefs and fought for what they believed in. Still glad the British Army slapped em.

    Because otherwise you'd be living in the UK?


  • #27
    Noddyholder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    A Little Pony wrote: »
    That was a time when people actually had strong beliefs and fought for what they believed in. Still glad the British Army slapped em.

    Yea it worked out well for the auld Brits ok ?

    How is your little colony coming along there, must be getting nervous living on a sinking ship ;)


  • #28
    Widdershins
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    A Little Pony wrote: »
    That was a time when people actually had strong beliefs and fought for what they believed in. Still glad the British Army slapped em.

    Why are you glad?


  • #29
    Noddyholder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Noddyholder


    Widdershins wrote: »
    Why are you glad?

    Of course he is glad he is Northern unionist/loyalist.


  • #30
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Yes, one of the 16 commanders/leaders to die by firing squad. Can't remember the exact connection. One of great or great great grandfather's first cousins I think.

    Already previously done quite a bit on my family tree including as far back as 4 or 5 generations on both sides. A little more research and updating and I would probably link him in some where.


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  • #31
    A Little Pony
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    Noddyholder wrote: »
    A Little Pony wrote: »
    That was a time when people actually had strong beliefs and fought for what they believed in. Still glad the British Army slapped em.

    Yea it worked out well for the auld Brits ok ?

    How is your little colony coming along there, must be getting nervous living on a sinking ship ;)
    Your in the EU mate. ;)


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