more succesful easter rising, effect on ww1?

could a more sucessful easter rising have seriously effected WW1? possible POD to make it more sucesful: Perhaps the Aud is not intercepted and scuttled or perhaps MacNeill falls down some stairs so is counter order in the paper never comes to be?
 

Coulsdon Eagle

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Ultimately I suspect the Rising would still fail. The British had a small number of army divisions that stayed at home that could be rushed over to Dublin pretty fast.

However this could play out politically two completely different ways assuming a higher death toll: -
1. The Republican movement gets a shot in the arm through greater defiance and the British take the bitter blame for it being more bloody than OTL.
2. With greater military action public opinion supports the increased reaction of the British and consequently the executions of the ringleaders is regarded slightly less critically.
Not being Irish I couldn't say what way it would swing!

On the military front reserves would undoubtedly be denied Haig so there are butterflies for the Somme offensive. Perhaps it is on a shorter front which might slightly improve the artillery's performance and lead to less casualties. In return the Germans probably pull less troops out of Verdun. Could the big losers be the French?

[PS - on the Somme can we stop referring to 19,000 killed on the first day? Of the missing reported on 1st July 1916, over 2,500 had not turned up by 1932!)
 
Well the plan was originally for a countrywide rebellion,but everything went horribly wrong, so they just went for Dublin.
If it happens countrywide, we might see guerilla warfare, instead of taking over buildings etc, as this seems like the only way to have a chance against the British.
 
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