Original sentence: As a result of the Rising, and the British response to it, the Irish people became disillusioned with the home rulers, and this became apparent in the North Roscommon by-election of February 1917, when Count Plunkett, father of the executed 1916 leader Joseph Plunkett, defeated the Irish Party candidate in what had hitherto been a safe seat
Edited sentence: As a result of the Rising, and the disproportionate British response to it, the Irish people became disillusioned with the home rulers, and this became apparent in the North Roscommon by-election of February 1917, when Count Plunkett, father of the executed 1916 leader Joseph Plunkett, defeated the Irish Party candidate in what had hitherto been a safe seat