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The old mid twenties Italian ethnic decor slowly faded by way of story teller's art. Mahogany wood work, engraved beveled glass mirrors, lamp covers with their knitted tassels, starkly posed sepia photo portraits of once youthful elders twirled into fog from which emerged conjured stone streets with dispersing curiosity seekers who had been drawn by the commotion. The mere handful of vocal agitators were mostly agitated out. Through the artful spin of an Irish story teller this rabble of the mostly curious was revisited. Some uprising. A few boisterous young men who sought the attention of a foreign government of occupation and the support of the local fearful citizens by locking themselves up in a public building is all it was. This was not the fall of the Russian Tsar. Christmas window decorations at Macy's draw bigger than this. It was a failure at the onset, poorly communicated and disorganized by near spontaneity. With only locals curious onlookers, they had about the impact of any campus student demonstration. But the spectators had other things in their lives and were now mostly wandering off. Thus the crowd was already thinned with folks heading home, when the stragglers were suddenly overcome from behind and murdered by gunfire. British surgical forensics confirmed that virtually all the wounds were by Royal troopers rifles fired from a distance into people's backs and agreed with the eye witnesses that there was no confrontation but a willful massacre. This was a teach'em a lesson. The Easter Rebellion was a study in amateurish idealism to just demonstrate that you really want freedom. Is that what George Washington did? Symbolic demonstrations? Well as we know," he continued, "the English don’t build pyramids.

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