Quite the most pathetic, half-hearted effort to come to terms with 21st Century Ireland - or should that read 20th Century- was The Irish Times apology for being so bold as to publish a supplement on the 1916 Rising. Announcing the supplement as an independent-minded effort to avoid taking sides, it presented the Rising as either "the founding act of a democratic Irish state or a historic act of treachery". Sure, take your pick. Free article

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