Yes, though we wouldn't reduce Ireland's easter uprising as "poking the bear". We would see it for what it was - a popular uprising.
Actually I have studied this over the years and in fact it was not a popular uprising. It was more poking the bear than it was popular. It was an attempt to draw a line when the population was not with them becuase they felt that the opportunity would not come back. They knew there was not enough support and they would lose.
Some participant even felt that they had to move forward becuase without doing so Ireland would settle for home rule rather than independence. Popular opinion was leaning to home rule and not independence. Ireland called itself a free state for a time as well -- even after independence -- rather than a republic: saorstat eireann.
Many would have preferred home rule to independence -- in order to keep unity. At the time many Irish were fighting in World war 1 and sympathies to their efforts were greater until the British botched the rebellion which was largely designed to do what it did. Fail to more support.
The British miscalculated and their harshness towards the Easter Rising participants turned it into a popular rebellion.
There are no Irish historians that have ever claimed that the Easter rising was a popular uprising. It was an action by a small group whose sacrifice won the hearts of the nation is a more common view.