339. Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916

[@anyakirby2014]

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 🍷!

[@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!

[@TheDanieldineen]

The book is "The Hegartys of the Laurels"!

[@stevendenny7260]

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.

[@sdm12342002]

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.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

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.

[@marblackCanada]

Like, a year later at Vimy Ridge the Canadian Corp stormed ,and drove the Germans from the high ground, that they never regained. This one battle will build an army that for the rest of the war they will fight as a unit led by Canadian General Aurther Currie. Many people say that was the day we became a country.🇨🇦🍁

[@robleahy5759]

And the Dublin fusilliers are you unread?

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@robleahy5759 No mate just speaking about my own you can talk on yours

[@robleahy5759]

@@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf I am an Aussie. Who reads books that don't always have pictures in them.

[@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf]

@@robleahy5759 Read to me sometime mate i`m demented

[@shamsam4]

That was good!

[@CL-we8tn]

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

[@kambrose1549]

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

[@gosiachaaban2484]

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

[@louisburke8927]

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

[@robleahy5759]

Strongbow, Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Charles Parnell, are you really blind?

[@jl91iii]

​@@robleahy5759no need to be condescending.

[@josephcerski3466]

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

[@goyonman9655]

Relax, it's a multi-part series

[@metacomet101]

Tory wanker can’t handle a 4 part series

[@Secretname951]

I found this series a bit tough going as well. I suppose I learnt one or two things.

[@Hiram1000]

Show me, on the doll, where the Irish History lesson hurt you. Lol.

[@morden279]

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.

[@papi8659]

Not as ironic as the UK fighting WW1 for the freedom of small countries while bombarding the brave Irish

[@malcolmmartin3206]

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.

[@ohnoitsdominoes5393]

Actual worms in your brain lad, Irish people don’t support Hamas, they just think Israel blowing up Palestinian children and hospitals is bad actually and they should probably stop that and make peace with them, preferably without their boots on their necks. Being Protestant in Ireland is so normalised now that you don’t even hear Prod jokes anymore! We’ve had Protestant government ministers, Presidents, artists, writers, sportspeople and businessmen who have all been wildly successful in the country. You might want to start engaging with reality

[@Hiram1000]

Utter nonesence, I'm afraid. And it's not your fault, it's merely ignorance of Ireland and the Irish people. In fact, reading your comment, one could garner that you've either never set foot in the Republic, or at least haven't spent any amount of time living here. Or, you were born here yet live elsewhere for years. Let me give you an example. I'm a freemason. It's an all-Island order. The Irish Masonic Constitution covers North and South and we have both Protestant and Catholic, plus Jewish, Muslim, even preists and vicars in our lodges. We all meet every month in lodges from Malin Head to Cork. I invite you to join us. Your impression of Protestant treatment in the Republic is completely and utterly incorrect, flawed and harks back to an era long gone. In fact, some of the most Nationalist people I know here in the south, are Protestant! Your comment is so out of touch, I'm wondering if you are either Trolling, or if you even actually live here? Please explain what your circumstances are for you to have written what you have. I'm genuinely curious because, if you're serious, then there is a whole other, forgotten world here that has been completely left behind.

[@Hiram1000]

P.S. I work in the North, but live in the South. It may surprise you to know that none of us, as in the vast, vast majority of us here in the South, actually want the North. Why would we? We cannot afford it, for starters. Plus, none of us have an appetite to deal with the lunacy around flags, painting kerbstones, murals, both Loyalist and Nationalist neanderthalism, the tribalism, the abject poverty and the complete ignorance towards the south and our society. We've moved on. We're highly educated, secular, hard working and forward thinking. Do you know, I've met over 30 folks so far who have never, ever set foot in the south. Ever. That's nuts.