Madam, – Violence in Ireland did not, as has been suggested, start in 1916.
Rather, the Rising was a response to hundreds of years of misrule in Ireland by the British government. The campaign of Cromwell and the Famine sowed the seeds for the events of 1916, which led to a sort of peace after the 1922-23 Civil War over partition, and should be rightly commemorated. – Yours, etc,