From ‘The Dublin Revolt’, The Spectator, 29 April 1916: If we are to do what will most disappoint the Germans, and that surely is a thing worth doing, we must pick up the pieces in Ireland with as little fuss as possible, and show the minimum of annoyance and disturbance… The insurrection in Ireland, seen in its true proportions, is not a great military event.
The front page of the Evening Standard newspaper, published in London on the second day of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 25th April 1916 (Photo: Getty)
