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30 <strong>Essential</strong> <strong>Histories</strong> • <strong>The</strong> <strong>Anglo</strong>-<strong>Irish</strong> <strong>War</strong><br />
at the hostility of <strong>Irish</strong> prisoners of war when convinced that an <strong>Irish</strong> rising would be<br />
he attempted to raise an anti-British <strong>Irish</strong> doomed to failure and resolved to return<br />
Brigade in 1915. He only managed to recruit to Ireland to prevent one.<br />
55 men from over 2,000 <strong>Irish</strong> POWs. Worse Arguably, Pearse did not care whether<br />
still he realized that his recruits were<br />
a rising succeeded or not, and there is<br />
unreliable self-seeking rogues. In the end, considerable evidence to suggest that he had<br />
his plans came to naught and he became more enthusiasm for a heroic failure rather
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