I've always been under the impression that the latter was all about the former, with a bit of help from the British. How surprised I was then to find out that two of the main protagonists in the Easter Rising (Wolfe Tone and Russel) were in fact, Protestants. This kind of shat on everything I ever really roughly knew about Ireland. Whilst there have been LOADS of references on the board and shit I don't think we've actually had a topic on the troubles, 1916, the Empire's rule and before the British invasion.
It's pretty interesting and very close to home (if not home) for most on here so yeah, I'm interested.