What factors caused the 1916 Easter Rising to fail?

Question: What factors caused the 1916 Easter Rising to fail!?
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The British were in the Middle World War I, and their army was larger than at anytime in their history!. also, with hundreds of thousands of Britons, including Irishman, dying in the war, they were no mood to put up with opportunistic back stabbing maneuver like this!. So, they brought in heavy artillery and warships with very big guns!. The rebels only had rifles and some explosives!. They were pulverized!.

also, the whole of Ireland had failed to rise up with them!. Most Irish, Catholic and Protestant, saw them as idiots or terrorists!. Anglo-Irish relations had been improving more and more since the 1850's!. Catholics were no longer banned from any public office, except the Monarchy, and their rights were steadily increasing!. Had the war not broken out, the British government would have given them home rule!. That's sort of like turning Ireland into one of our states!. They would have had their own Parliament and run most of their own affairs while still part of the larger federal government in London!.

For most Irish, there didn't seem any point to the blood letting!. What turned things around was what came after!. The British executed many of the captured rebels after brief military trials!. One was actually dying so they strapped him to a cot and stood him up for the firing squad!.

Unfortunately, triggered in the Irish Catholic public their innate romantic sentimentality!. If there is one thing the Irish love, its a martyr even if he is an idiot!. If the British had just locked up the idiots, no one would have cared!. By shooting them, all the emotional baggage of the previous 400 years suddenly came to life in the Irish imagination!. They all became idiots!.
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