339. Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916

The Easter Rising began in Dublin's General Post Office on Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, with Patrick Pearse’s dramatic proclamation of the Irish Republic. Led by republicans opposed to British rule in Ireland, this was the most significant uprising in more than a century - and changed the entire course of Irish and British history, with effects that still reverberate today.

In today’s episode, Tom and Dominic return to the GPO in Dublin, as the brilliant Professor Paul Rouse tells the bloody story - at once inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking - of the Easter Rising and its extraordinary aftermath.

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[BrianFeely-kt]

Paul is quite incredible. Not only wildly knowledgeable but able to transmit it with passion.

[sdm]

Can't wait till you do an episode on The Troubles. I've been doing a lot of watching and reading about it recently. Just read: "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe. Highly recommend it.

[bernieone]

The internment camp at Frongoc Wales was absolutely key to the story of later events

[CL-wetn]

The Irish could never tell a story, they sing it, and the professor is brilliant at doing exactly that. I could listen all day.

[TheDanieldineen]

I love this show lads! My great grandmother, Mamie Hegarty was very much involved in the later war of independence, Jim Hegarty her nephew recently released a book about her and her siblings who were all intelligence officers and ran a bomb factory from the house in Cork city!

[anyakirby]

What a brilliant podcast.
With such beautiful colourful details, and so well balanced.

Can't help juxtaposing it with another revolution that happened a year later in Russia, and unfortunately was much more successful. Yet lost million lives, and ruined my country’s future for the next century at least.
To all the poetic, brave and heroicly unsuccessful revolutions 🍷!

[stevendenny]

Really good listen to a period in our History, that believe or not, is never taught in Schools... atleast here in the North.

Many thx.

[waynemcauliffe-fvyf]

April 23 1916. Nearly a year to the day later of April 25 Anzac Day 1915 when a lot of Aussies of Irish descent landed at Gallipoli and started Australia`s greatest legendary story.

[murtbuggy]

Just finished this series.... excellent and have subscribed. Hope you do come back fior Michael Collins and when he and Winston Churchill faced each other at the Anglo-Irish Treaty negociations.

[gosiachaaban]

Connection between poetry and revolution, yes. Why did Plato want to expel poets from his city?

[kambrose]

There was a lot of interest in folk tales, arthurisn legends and similar ancient national pre history heroes all over Europe at that time 😊

[RyanCarabin]

We mustn’t forget the significant amount of Irishman who fought in the British Army during The Easter Rising, and especially those who were killed by their fellow countrymen. It is often a dismissed subject, airbrushed out of Irish History because it ultimately taints the ‘purity’ of the Rising. Neil Richardson’s book ‘According to their Lights’ is a good read for anyone interested in the numerous examples of Irishmen fighting the Rebels in 1916.

[nthsum]

I was just listening to Jeff Buckley and this sorry gave me chills.

[louisburke]

It's fascinating how many of the nationalist leaders were Anglo-Irish. Markievicz being an example.

[ThomasPainefull]

An intriguing guest, yet who has a palpable gleam in his voice for the uprising's violence, a kind of blood lust.

[morden]

One of the great ironies of history: socialist Irish republicans fighting for their self-determination by acquiring aid from Imperial Germany, whose ongoing war aim was to permanently occupy Belgium and Northern France.

[josephcerski]

Please can we have something else besides the Ireland stuff soon? It’s great just want a bit of variation ❤

[malcolmmartin]

What these three episodes have show with the esteemed Professor, is that Irish History, as present by him, continually regurgitates four hundred, or more, years of suffering at the hands of the English/British.
Indeed no people in history have suffered longer and more at the hands of an oppressor.
Well a case might be made for the Children of Israel in Egypt. There is an irony.
Why this constant victimhood and looking for revenge is important is that Ireland’s default position is anti British. Northern Ireland must cease to exist.
It extends to their self congratulating view of themselves as the ultimate arbiter of any conflict or dispute between peoples to invite Hamas to join them on their high moral ground.
No hint of self analysis on the past history of Irish Republicans siding with Hitler or Catholic anti Semitic treatment of Jews in their current hatred of Israel.
Past wrongs have continually to be righted in Irish society at all levels so there is no place in politics, academia or the Law for the likes of me. A Protestant Irish Citizen.