As thousands of protesters thundered through central Dublin over Easter weekend, waving a sea of tricolour flags, Ireland’s anti-immigration movement staked a bold claim. The legacy of the Easter Rising martyrs – who underwrote with their lives the founding of the Irish state – was theirs. ‘We will be a true following on from our forefathers in 1916 who had a workers’ revolution,’ declared Malachy Steenson, a Dublin councillor and nationalist leader.