"?Material on Eight Books on Ireland?... from the British side in which the experiences of the colonial rulers with the boycott strategies of the Burmese nationalists was likened to the Irish rebellions after the Easter Rising of 1916. Later, the Burmese side proudly used the epithet as a fitting characteristic of their spirit of independence and an indication that Burma could achieve the goal of becoming a free country if the lessons of fighting the seemingly superior power in the same way than the fighters from the small island of Ireland had done. The same logic of taking over an attribute used by the superior in a conflict and reversing it against the aggressor happened when Maung Ba Thoung proclaimed himself Thakin (master) Ba Thoung in 1930 taking over the title reserved for the European masters in Burma until then. He and his followers in the Thakin movement that developed into the Do-Bama Asiayone (We Burman Association) thus symbolically proclaimed themselves as the real rulers of Burma in the succession of the Irish and other formally subjugated nations..."