Furthermore, the Rising occurred when even these promises of self-government were being severely qualified. Already the leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party were accepting that any self-government would be accompanied by the partition of Ireland.
Such was the background from which the alliance of those who took part in 1916 was formed. On une one nana macre were me rom antic nationalists led by Padraic en on by similar considerations in Ireland itself.
For Connolly the prospect of partuon was untninkadie because of any abstract commitment to national unity, but because of the effect partition would have on the working class. He wrote: It would mean a carnival of reaction both north and south, would set back the wheels of progress and would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement."
It was such fears that led Conevaporate into thin air. LABOUR - TOI those who wish to see Ireland free from British imperialism say that 'labour must wait' as did the leaders of the War of Independence in 1921. While labour has waited British imperialism has remained.
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