The End of Tech-Friendly Ireland?DUBLIN, August 31—This is turning out to be quite a fascinating week to be in Ireland.
Everywhere one goes in Dublin, there are commemorative posters, exhibits at every museum, and year-long special events marking the centennial of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, when Irish republicans rose up to fight the British for independence. Quickly and brutally squashed, the Rebellion was nevertheless a watershed for the cause: Britain’s summary executions of the rebellion’s participants and harsh reprisals following turned the tide of Irish public opinion, with the separatist Sinn Féin party sweeping the 1918 elections, leading to full
