RTÉ 1916

RTÉ unveils RTÉ 1916, an ambitious programme of content and events across television, radio, mobile and online. RTÉ 1916 invites people, at home and throughout the world, to watch, listen and take part as they commemorate and celebrate, debate and analyse the centenary of the 1916 Rising.

Featuring major television drama, groundbreaking documentary, curated on-street events and a slate of young people’s programmes, RTÉ 1916 will consider the seismic event itself as well as the broader cultural, political and historical complexities of the Rising, and its impact on the decades and century that followed. Programmed in both languages, RTÉ 1916 will reach out to Irish people of all ages.


Creative: RTÉ Central Communications
Producer/Director: Aaron Heffernan
Editor: JP Shortt & Colm O’Brien
Camera: Paul Daniels
Sound: Peter O’Connor
Soldier on-screen actor & voice: Robbie O’Connor
Voiceover: David Herlihy
Graphics: Paul Gibney
Studio footage produced and directed by Greg Corcoran
Printing press location: National Print Museum
Archive footage: RTÉ Archives
Mountains footage: Secrets of the Irish Landscape (RTÉ Cork)
Music: Lúnasa with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra