Sinn Fein's Rise in 1916

In 1907, Sinn Fein hadn't grabbed the public imagination at all. And they really wouldn't for another ten years. The IRB wasn't huge either. Though a lot of the Irish wanted an independent country and were fiercely nationalistic,. They just didn't really want to join a secret society. By 1913 it was all but certain that this would happen. But then World War I happened instead and things just got messy.