The Easter Rising - Ireland in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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- Easter 1916 was a turning point for Ireland and its situation between Home Rule and Irish soldiers serving on the fronts of Gallipoli and the Western Front. And even though the Easter Rising, the armed uprising against the British was unsuccessful, the spark for Irish nationalism ultimately led to the establishment of the Irish Republic.
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"Suspiciously Irish" is my new favorite way of describing someone
We awaited your Easter Rising episode in Ireland, not to hear anything new, but to hear a new nanny tell us a favourite bedtime story. Indy, you told it well! We appreciate it.
This made me chuckle with a tone of voice that I didn't even think I was capable of uttering.
Love it lol
Just a side note; the footage of the British Army shelling the GPO with field guns in this episode, as well as many documentaries on the Easter Rising, is actually Irish Free State soldiers during the Irish Civil War who were shelling anti-Treaty IRA volunteers that had occupied the Four Courts Castle during the Battle of Dublin, 28th June - 5th July 1922.
Most of the damage to the GPO was done by the Navy using HMAAY Helga.
Glad I read the Comments as I was about to write the same !
That was an another bloody war
Correct
"A terrible beauty is born"- W.B Yeats on the Rising.
Obligatory Yeats quote achieved
The way you pronounce Irish words is endearing.
All good tries by him ! :)
Yup
I really hope you guys are gonna make a simmilar series for the Interbellum once the war is over. So much interesting stuff around the world: Irish uprising, Polish-soviet war, communist rule in USSR, the great crisis, the rise of fascism... I wish you'll at least make videos about these events later on, for now - keep on the good work!
+Martin Mortyry Agreed. The immediate post-war period is really interesting, the German revolution for instance. Even if it was just one video a week as a short summary.
+Martin Mortyry Don't forget the Hungarian-Romanian war. That was a thing too.
The Russian civil war should be covered for sure.
+GamesLegitament Didn't that lead to Communism?
Holden Roth Yes
...And the world did gaze with deep amaze at those fearless men, but few,
who bore that fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew.
Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Suvla or Sud-El-Bar
veronicadredd22 Damn I was about to post that. 😂 TÁL
I'll sing you a song of a row in the town
When the Green Flag went up and the Crown rag came down
When Brittania's Huns with their long range guns came in through the foggy dew
For slavery fled
Where the heroes bled
‘Neath the shroud of the Foggy Dew
But had they died by Pearse's side
Or fought with Cathal Brugha
Well Done on the Easter Rising episode guys/gals. I've been looking forward to it and you didn't disappoint. I know the Rising inside out and upside down but watched this as if I knew nothing and you explained it all so well. How you managed to get all the highlights in with enough background and a glimpse into what came after is incredible. So well written and researched. You did a great job on the pronunciation too for a non Irish speaker. Thanks for doing Ireland justice. Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks, that really means a lot to us. It was a real challenge for us to get it right and we are glad we did.
yeah it was good, unusual to hear background info from you guys i thought it helped, be good for future episodes
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Just visited Ireland last month when they where celebrating the 100th anniversay of the Easter Rising. The city and the whole country was in festive mood. It's an amazing piece if history.
I am from Long Island.
There's a story about Michael Collins when he was working in London telling his boss that he was going back to Ireland to enlist but didn't mention he was enlisting in the Irish volunteers , great episode, you did the rising justice and I really enjoyed it , well done keep up the good work
"English reinforcements" *hears bagpipes in background*
Indeed! More properly, "British reinforcements".
Cameron Weir actually it was mostly Scottish reinforcements
Oisin Dalton that was his points
That would be the Scots, no?
I Boarshock Scotland isn’t British
Been waiting for this episode. Nice job guys!
+MrHollahead Cheers.
+MrHollahead same
+The Great War when is that romania episode coming?
great job
I feel like this channel should genuinely be used for educational purposes in schools. The format, presentation and info is perfect for it.
+Kira ! And a lot of teachers do that already.
Hey Indy, I wanted to say thank you for helping me get the only 100 on my industrial rev, the Great War, and imperialism test!
+KGB Borris Great, congratulations!
Thanks for the episode Indy as an Irishman glad to see your encompassing the entirety of WW1 keep it up.
+Luke Harrison Thanks.
my great great uncle fought in 1 of the irish volunteer regiments, and died in the 2nd battle of the ypres. my great grandad also saw the uprising take place.
I really enjoyed this. As an irishman, I understand just how difficult a task it is to summarise the events around the 1916 rising and to properly give it context - good job.
0:44 That is footage from a signing of Edward Carsons anti-homerule petition by Unionists.
Didn't expect to find you here
Ulster Covenant
u do know that tensions between Ireland and Britain had been rising for 1, 2 ,3... 800 years
Ozer Harry 800 years? Have you ever opened a history book?
They really hadnt. It had been on and off, but there was never 800 years of constant tension, thats absolutely unsustainable. Irish nationalism tended to operate in flashpoints, rather than a constant slow burn
stevo8433 It's the other way around. Effective English (and later British) control waxed and waned. There was no nationalist movement pre Elizabeth because Ireland was effectively self governing.
I love the "Irish problem". I got to study the history of Irish politics for my History A-level in the UK, which was really interesting as we had an Irish national teaching it.
TMW: Midgeman You wouldn't, we get WAY to passionate about it
@17ll3 x214 it wasn't called that in my history books. Although it was referenced that it used to called it "the Irish problem"
Nice to see Ireland talked about on this great channel. Good job guys
+Siurtán O'Muilleoir Thanks.
Today 24th April…the 105th Anniversary of the Easter Rising!…All honour to the Irish Irish Republican Brotherhood Army, The Irish Volunteers, The Women of Cumann na mBan and the boys of Na Fianna Eireann. May their Names and Courage never be forgotten. And in Memory of Sean (Jack) Healy the youngest of the Easter Rising Martyr’s.
Considering the controversial subject matter, I think you did very well to not step on anyone's toes. Good work!
Just a minor side note, the footage presented as the Third Home Rule Bill at 0:44 is actually the Ulster Covenant being signed by Carson against Home Rule.
Waited for this since July 2014. Great video as usual
+lovablesnowman Thanks.
I've been watching since the begining and now I feel proud of my country!
+Bob Flavin Thanks for your support.
Here's a question for Out of the Trenches: What were German colonial plans for the Entente African and Asian colonies after a hypothetical German victory to the war?
mostly independence but probably some land to Paul Emil von lettow vorbeck army
and return of ottoman land
maybe a trading port too austria in Tunis
+Kaiser Chris None, with exception of Moroccan independence.
+Kaiser Chris Let's be honest... lol where there ANY plans by either side for what would happen after the war?! Just a lot, ALOT of promises, that would be broken as soon as the guns stopped firing...
Dr Schnee's book "German Colonization Past and Future" will answer many of your questions. It's available for free on the internet.
+Kaiser Chris Would probably connect their colonies, so belgian congo e.t.c woudlve been likely
It was better to die neath an Irish Sky than at Suvla or Sud El Bar
Well put together we appreciate put into this video, Family member in both side of my family tree fought in 1916 all the way through the struggle for freedom.
Respect man ✊🏼
Guys, you`re great! Really big and professional project!
Thanks!
Great episode well researched! As an Irish man who growing up new nothing about what happened in the first war only that the soldiers who fought in the war were seen as traitors to the cause. They came from the war were not welcomed as hero's but stigmatised by wearing the British uniform during the war. All that is changing slowly now. Keep up the good work 👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
+tubs09rfc Definitely a complex situation.
I too was in Ireland recently (from Houston, TX). The first thing that caught my interest was the amazing fight for freedom by the Irish citizens. Dublin was filled with historical places to learn about those events. What was even more interesting was a visit to Northern Ireland and to see that dividing wall between Union loyalists and the Republic supporters still exists. As a Black Cab driver told us much of it is there for the sake of tourism. But, one could not help the eerie feeling the wall and militaristic images painted about does not have an impact on that society. Especially the young who walk past it everyday on their way to school. In fact, they were adding another gated section to the wall when we were there. Great stuff Indy!
Haha! Ireland's got a whole special, get the pints out!
bag of cans...be grand!
Cheers!
@@thomaspollock9274 not us here in the north
I hope this series continues in the post war period. A lot of interesting things happened after WW1 officially ended, including a continuation of the war, with new players, across almost all of eastern europe. I'd love to hear how we get to about 1923 (when this settled down) in this sort of week-by-week format.
As a man from County Leitrim in Ireland,I have to say you did a good job with this video,keep up the good work.
Bit late to the party but as an Irish citizen I am deeply grateful & happy to see the Rising mentioned in a great episode by you guys! Well done & keep up the great work!
Great job! I was looking forward to an episode on this topic. Great show and keep up the good work. One of my favourite channels on CZcams!!!
YEEESSS!!! One of the events I've been looking forward to the most! Thanks a lot!
Also it was only after the leaders were executed that people thought "These men were fighting for something",then the support of the public rallied to the cause.
As it eventually turned out, those later events were part of the scope of this channel!
A good basic summary. It should be pointed out that in 1914, a Home Rule bill had gone through both Houses of Commons and Home Rule had been democratically achieved, after at least a century of effort, whereupon loyalist groups in the north of Ireland began to import weapons, and the British army in Ireland mutinied (the Curragh mutiny), and let it be known that they weren't going to enforce this law. The repeated blocking of democratic means is what pushed a lot of the Irish nationalists into insurrection and direct action.
As an Irishman from Derry in the North, thanks Indy! Éireann go Bragh!
+MrComradeDave glad you liked it
+The Great War hey indie in the map behind you between Spain and France there is a yellow dot what country is that?
+Noel Sandoval I think it's called andorra
+Noel Sandoval Andorra
+airsoftkillamanjaro thanks
i am Irish and thanks for episode of the Easter rising
Great work guys, I'm finally caught up with the episodes. It's been a real pleasure of finally learning what really happened in The Great War.
+Pops Brink Thanks. Finished right in time for the real madness this spring.
A great video guys! You did an amazing job compressing that much info into a 10 minutes. Surprisingly good pronunciation as well, us native Irish can barely pronounce them as it is xD A truly vital moment in our history, it means a lot that you guys covered it. Reminds me why I watch this channel every week
Always glad to see a new The Great War Episode like usual :)
Let's not forget the memory of Irishman Edward Corringham "Mick" Mannock VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC & Bar (24 May 1887 - 26 July 1918)of the RFC who shot down 61 enemy aircraft.
He carried a pistol with him while flying, so he could shoot himself if his plane caught on fire.
His S.E.5a did catch fire when he was shot down by ground fire when he flew low to inspect a German plane he'd helped a new pilot shoot down. He and the two German aircrew were killed. It seems Mannock didn't shoot himself - due to where his body was found, it's believed that he jumped.
Hey Indy! Thanks for covering this topic! A really informative, well made video. Many thanks from Ireland!
+theirishanime007 Glad you liked it.
Well handled guys means alot for a channel to properly cover this topic
How did I miss this, great retelling in any case
+petrallen Thanks
+The Great War do u think if ww1 never happend would they have gone to revolution?
Nice vid my great great grandad and his brothers fought against the Brits down in cork
Brilliant. This is an excellent summary of the events of 1916. Well done Indy and co.
Awesome episode, was waiting for this since the start of the year
Hundreds of thousands left Ireland to go to the USA, not tens of thousands.
Actually, it was in the millions. From 1861-1900. Millions of Irish went to the USA. www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/
+Nonamearisto approx 1.9 million
From 1845 to 1945 the Irish population dropped from 8 million to 3 million. 1 million died in the famine from 1845 to 1850 and the rest left.
Nonamearisto he said 1.5 million afterwards Jesus Christ
That 1945 figure does not include the population of Northern Ireland however, whereas the 1845 figure does. It is likely you could add near one million more to the 1945 figure when counting the whole island of Ireland.
Either way it was a drastic rate of depopulation.
This is probably the most contentious video, at least in the English speaking world, uploaded to the channel so far.
Edit: Just to make it clear to outsiders. This was not Protestant/Catholic. There were Protestant Nationalists and Catholic Unionists.
+Harry McCusker contentious because of our statements or the topic itself?
The Great War Mostly the topic, but people have already taken issue with a handle of claims. Like this being the first time the majority of Irish people wanting independence.
+Harry McCusker I think it's fair to say that the Rising led to a widespread, vociferous, and coherent demand for a Republic. Before the Rising, most Irish Nationalists were happy with a constitutional approach that merely sought some form of autonomy within the Empire. Irish Republicanism, as a mass movement, has its roots in Easter 1916.
+bryanpatrickmchugh And yes, there were Protestant Nationalists and Catholic Unionists but these were few and far between. The overwhelming majority of Catholics were Nationalists and the overwhelming majority of Protestants were Unionists. To suggest otherwise is misleading.
+DrNomadEater wut
Indy, now I get what others have been saying about specific pronunciations throughout the series *squirms*
HOWEVER! I've been watching since mid 2015, so glad that you're still going strong, and that you covered this topic in particular. Thanks!
+That Girl With The Coffee We recently made a list of languages and dialects we had to pronounce so far:
Irish, Scottish, English, French, Belgian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Latvian, Yiddish, Polish, Austrian, Hungarian, Slovenian, Italian, Czech, Slovakian, Ruthenian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Romanian, Armenian, Turkish, Arabian, Syrian, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Boer, Rhodesian, South African, Kenyan, Nyasan, Senussi, Egyptian, Cameroonian, Australian, New Zealand, American, Mexican, and Canadian. There are probably several more
So, yeah, we are doing our best but pronouncing everything in a native tongue is simply impossible.
great episode and very close to my heart as an Irishman
Very good summary of the Irish status during the war. Surprisingly in depth.
+Brian Boruma We do our best.
British thinking: *COLONIZE ON SIGHT*
ADapper Irish colonized with Britain
The Duke of Wellington was a Paddy
Great video. This is a topic I've been very interested in. Thank you.
Excellent episode. Thank you guys.
Finally the episode so many have waited and asked for :-)
+Andreas Tischler Yeah, moving Easter dates made for a very desperate situation.
The Great War yes, what a desperate situation 😊. Have you seen the new Great War mod for Attila: Total War? Could be interesting for the community.
I love the way he says Connelly like Con-E-lee.
theawsomeguy you love the way he mispronounces it? I'd be a bit pissed if someone consitently mispronounced my name
Thanks Indy and Crew, ye did a good job on a very difficult and potentially controversial subject. Keep up the good work.
Love your channel guys I have watched it religiously since it first came out.
+History Nerd Thanks.
Very good article, you know your stuff.
well done. great job done here lads
+Conor Donohoe Thanks.
thank you for making a vid on Easter rising keep up the good work!
Love your channel. Been playing catch up a LOT. Brilliantly done, explained well, and objective of course...from an Irish history teacher with an M.Phil in Modern Irish History from Trinity College,.
Thanks and welcome to the show. And sorry for butchering the names.
Thanks and no it was the best I've heard from an American haha. Thanks for covering it.
great video! no mentioning of the gunboat Helga though which they used to shell the GPO?
“Home rule.” When 6 counties are still under foreign rule…
Thank you Guys! I been waiting of this. Keep up the Great Work!
+Shawn Mallon Glad you liked it.
Thank you of making it. Keep up the GREAT work.
Nicely done. Thanks
a few places in the country rose. Galway and Wexford.
only if the volunteers in Munster fought the rebellion would have went on for longer
Munster Volunteers more than made up for it 3 years later when they started the War of Independence
The Munster volunteers stood down in the confusion leading up to the rising. And in galway only 1 policeman was killed. The leaders from connemara all got caught the morning of the rising so nothing really happened.
And in Ashbourne
Great episode Indy as always. It is worth noting for some context that up until the executions, and even to a point for a time after them, the Rising was seen as a "folly" by many. It was those executions, turning the leaders into martyrs and giving the whole mess a very "heroic" gleam that really fuelled the fires of nationalism.
My grandfather, and most of his brothers, served with the British during WWI and even as the "war" of Independence was in full swing many of those veterans who were fighting still argued that armed revolt was the wrong way forward. The partition and the Civil War that followed lend some weight to that argument.
+Gabriel Grey Thanks for sharing.
It should be mentioned that captured Republicans marched through Belfast were booed by the women because they were blamed for the destruction of the GPO where the remittances from the Irish soldiers at the front were sent.
I was hoping that you would cover this, good job.
Thank you that was a great and extremely informative analysis of my country's beautifully bloody history !
Great video!! Thank you for spreading the word on such a big Channel. Now people around the world will know what happened here in Ireland, since this is the 100th year anniversary of the Easter Rising. My Great granduncle fought in the Rebellion with the Irish volunteers, and 3 more of my family members were in the IRA in the war of independence from 1919 - 1922. Hero's!! Go Raibh milla Máith Agát! (Thanks very much).
+ my profile picture is a man named James Connolly. Along with the Irish volunteers, there was a small, Marxist group that fought alongside them during the rebellion called the "Irish Citizen Army", Connolly was there Commander. After the rebels were defeated, Connolly was Tied to a chair (due to a shattered Ankle) and executed.
+Daniel “The Fenian” Walsh The IRA were terrorists, not heroes.
Both of you haven't got a fucking a clue...
Corey M wtf do you mean smart ass? You've never fought or stood up for anything in your entire life. If you ever decided to open a book one day and read about James Connolly, you'd soon find out he's one of the most famous Socialists & Working class revolutionaries and is an absolute hero in the labour movements in Scotland,America and Ireland. But I know you'll never give s shit, so you should be quite when it comes to Judging others you dumb shit..
Æthewald Ældric likewise.. Keep your nose out of my countries business. The Old IRA of the 20's and the Provisional IRA of the 70's, 80's & 90's are H.E.R.O.S to the Irish people. The only terrorists here are the British government and the Ulster Loyalist Scum of the UVF who terrorised, murdered, looted, raped & shot our people for 800 years. They have terrorised our people by sending over mercinary thugs to commit genocide and tried there best to make us crawl and to wipe us out..but they FAILED due the the bravery of the Men & women of the IRA.
Find some fact to back up your actions, then I'll try to take you seriously.
Comrade Jay Hell in Hibernian some very stupid people in this comment section, I think I'm loosing brain cells:(
Oh trust me i'v heard worse on this very video. "Cromwell was kind, the Irish were not slaves, the English didn't cause the famine.."
+Daniel “The Fenian” Walsh Calm down m9 you are too serious for youtube.
I'm detecting a rising level of frustration and efforts to cut short the carping, snipping, and joking - Yes, we know we're leaving a lot of stuff out; Yes, we know what Kut means in Dutch; No, we don't speak every language and don't have proper accenting on every word in other tongues.
Do you work on this show? It's excellent :)
No, I don't. Yes, it is.
A great video and a very good synopsis of the situation. Thanks
+Brian Kirwan Thank you.
Pretty good special on the rising! I was hoping you would tackle it with some detail. Such an important moment in my nations history.
Considering the length these videos can be within reason you got in the key points of the history for the most part so fair play to you and the team.
This channel really is brilliant.
+zero_sum Thanks, we were actually a bit nervous because it's a really complex topic.
+The Great War Haha I'd be a bit nervous making a video on it too. A lot of strong feelings to this very day, as you can imagine.
Still, I'll reiterate, you hit the mark considering how far you can go in the format and the incredibly diverse audience you have.
The topic really is a bowl of spaghetti. You had the internal debate and politics of the Irish population and then British unionist side of it with a history stretching back hundreds of years with failed rebellions, occupations and plantations. All set in the wider scope of the World War dramatically changing the landscape in which any nation, or one yet to be formed, would exist in for the lifetime following.
In primary and secondary school we learn this history with these converging landscapes as linked completely. It's a large amount of text and minutia to give context to relatively simple meetings and marches. Honestly it's so messy at times you'd only want to learn about it if you were connected to it haha
The royal Irish regiment,this Leinster regiment and Dublin fusiliers fought the rebels in 1916
Through some research I was doing I came across an Australian Soldiers Diary who's entries for this time show he was on leave in Dublin after recovering from wounds at Gallipoli the previous year. He was pressed into service and took part in several actions in the streets of Dublin against the rebels.
Further research showed that Trinity College, one of two rebel targets not taken was actually defended by a handful of Australian and New Zealand soldiers on leave who were quickly handed rifles by the British and told to defend the College.
There were many reports of the astounding marksmanship of these Diggers who sat on the roof sniping rebels including 3 despatch riders on bikes who it was said' 4 shots were fired, two killing the first, and one wounding the second, the third rider got away'. After the rebels surrendered an Australian Sergeant (some reports say Kiwi) was talking to a captured rebel leader who said that his telephone wire was cut during the battle, to which the Sergeant said 'I got it did I!', after which he went out to get biscuits and tea for his prisoner so they could talk more about the battle and treated him with kindness.
In all fairness, most of the rebels knew it was going to be hopeless battle and they were not confident in their ability to fight. As a result, the British held onto a very minimally staffed Dublin Castle that could have been easily over run in the first hours of fighting.
thanks for the special, love the channel
Great channel. Great episode.
So very good! Text and historical explanation: excellent! You could rearrange contemporary film segments to better illustrate text. e.g. show Redmond, not Carson while talking about Redmond, and don't show the signing of "Ulster Covenant" while talking about signing of Home Rule Bill. (Just a small quibble about an excellent episode.)
+Ciaran Doyle Thanks. We do rely on archive descriptions to that extent and those can be misleading sometimes.
Pronunciation was a little off but good job for a brief overview
Great video with excellent narration as always.
Bravo! Great teaching.
First, great episode. Kudos for saying there is lots more about this subject. (FWIW my father's mother's maiden name was Sarah Francis Clancy. Married a German, she did. That's what America will do to you.)
One of the top aces of the Great War was Irish: Edward Corringham 'Mick' Mannock. He was a nationalist; that is, he wanted Irish home rule. Worked to achieve it, too.
There is a lot of confusion about Mick Mannock. The Aerodrome lists him as a English ace (www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/mannock.php), but there is no question that he was born in County Cork, Ireland. And why else would Edward's nickname be Mick? When I was a kid, his score was 73 kills; that made him the top scoring British ace. In the intervening years, his score has been revised downward. It is now 61. Billy Bishop's score of 72 is also hotly contested, but no one has changed his score.
History is a collection of lies we agree to tell ourselves.
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my great-great grandfather fought in ww1 and joined the free state army afterwards lads
The Incredible Sulk likewise one great grandfather who joined aged 15 to fight in ww1 and another who fought in the IRA around the same time.
Excellent video. Much love from Dublin
Thank you Indy and the whole team. The history of Ireland was denied us in K12 schools, during the 1950s-60s when I attended. The british isles were just colored the same on the map as if they were districts in England. There was no mention the fact Ireland had been an independent country for 40 years by that time-- nor the cruelty of English starvation tactics against the Irish in the 1840s and other totally exploitive military oppression.
No mention of it because most of what you wrote is bullshit.
My great grandfather died fighting in the British Army. He paid the ultimate sacrifice just to be stabbed in the back by the British monarch as seen throughout Ireland's history. Ireland may only have partial independence but my heart hopes that we can peacefully unite this country. tiochfaidh ar la.
Chris O'Mahony *complains about Imperial Britain yet has a stormtrooper as his profile pic* irony
Chris O'Mahony you'll probs never get the north, as long as us protties are here
@@douglasballantine2712 Speak for yourself, not all of us prods are hardcore unionists. Some of us do support a united Ireland.
@@eirbag5823 *very few
@@douglasballantine2712 you probably live in a loyalist echo chamber like the shankill so your opinion doesn't matter too much to me. A united Ireland is inevitable.
It's kind of ironic for me watching this brief introduction to the Irish revolution on a WW1 channel, with all of the disclaimers about how much is left out. When I was growing up in Ireland it was the opposite. Our assigned textbook had 4 pages dedicated to WW1, with nearly half the book devoted to Irish events from 1750 to about 1950. It's not an enjoyable subject. It's like Game of Thrones - so many characters, that just when you think how heroic one of them is, boom, he's dead. Only without all the sex. Padraig Pearse kept a gay sex diary that was so explicit that the Irish believed it was a British plot to discredit him when they released it.
+kentrel2 Yes, it's really complicated. That was a challenging episode to make for sure.
You guys does a great job!
keep it up!
thank for this episode
9:20... England handled this badly...
They really did. Utterly OTT response to the Rising. But I guess you have to try to see it as it would have been viewed at the time.
Here was Britain fighting a total war against Germany with death tolls in the hundreds of thousands, and then here were a group of Irishmen using German resources to start an insurrection, thereby stabbing Britain's war effort in the back. To the British authorities of the time this must have been seen as treachery of the worst kind.
Now we look back at it with a "WTF!?" attitude and it's no surprise Irish support for any kind of association with Britain evaporated overnight. Had the rising occurred in peacetime it would probably have been diffused with far more diplomacy and the transition to independence may have been much more peaceful and measured. Because it was total war the bluntest of instruments was the first to be reached for. Even now I just want to scream at the British government for being such total idiots.
I'm afraid the dreams of a truly free Irish state may have died with Connolly the civil strife that followed this was a messy religious and ethnic slaughter.
great episode I learened a lot today ...
Thank You For this film.