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This is a very important episode for the sake of understanding the kind of world that the characters of the 1916 story lived in.

Last time we examined the outbreak of the First World War and how that impacted the Nationalist

Unionist divide. Here we'll examine that war in the atmosphere

of increased militarism, extremism and aggression, which characterised the period. Within, we will

finally get to grips with the character of Patrick Pierce, as well as come are some important

background details which enabled the Irish Republican Brotherhood

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