Easter Rising Centenary 1916-2016

[@silverbullet8338]

For a small island. Ireland has and will always have a unbeatable spirit.

[@mikepratt3314]

IRELAND @ SCOTLANDS SIDE AND VICE VERSA LOVE IRELAND AS MUCH AS MY HOMELAND SCOTLAND XXX

[@staffy4389]

Real men , I wouldn't have the guts to stand up and be counted amongst hero's , thank you all for your service and sacrifice.

[@guywelsh9589]

The more recent IRA would have still accepted you, it takes no courage to plant bombs. The 1916 lot were real soldiers.

[@guywelsh9589]

@Lee McGuire Living under occupation takes courage. Setting off bombs in bus stations does not.

[@skippership7]

Please guys, Real MEN and Real WOMEN (not just men) and of course the Boys of Na Fianna Eireann like young Sean Healy, want a brave young man he was, his young life taken so far too early, my heart bleeds every time I see his photo. RIP young man, you will never be forgotten.

[@guywelsh9589]

@@skippership7 Thirteen years old and they actually let him join them? No cause is worth killing your own children over.

[@skippership7]

@@guywelsh9589 No, it's not a simple as that. Sean was acutally 15 years old when he was killed, he joined Na Fianna when he was 13. Younger members of Na Fianna were under "Orders to Stay at Home" during the Rising, but being the bold young man he was he made his way to Jacobs anyway after Easter Monday where again he was told by McDonagh to go home, which he did and he arrived home safely. However he ventured out again to join in and help out where he could which was when he was shout. We all know the same situation at the Mendicity Institution where the boys (aged 12-16) were also ordered to go home, but decided they would stay and fight, which they did and very bravely for 3 days. I think we also have to take into account those times when even boys as young as 12 were falsifying their ages during WW1 to go overseas to fight (that does not make it right of course) and that the school leaving age at that time was 13 anyway. These young lads were far braver than many of us today.

[@douglewis6924]

Beautiful tribute to these proud brave men and woman. Blessings to them all and their families.

[@justliveandletlive]

My family is English as far back as the 1700's (as far back as we can trace). My family were humble stock from the Midlands and Home Counties. They played no part in the horrors imposed on Ireland and I am embarrassed to be associated with the British establishment that carried out this tragedy (and India, South Africa etc.). Please don't hate ordinary working class British people. WE PLAYED NO PART IN IT. I love the Irish even though some of you hate me for being born British. Your hatred of 'others' does not help the world one bit. I wish you all good health and good luck.

[@pathpearleltd.8553]

We once appealed to the ordinary working folk of England, to come to our aid , as they did on to us they did to you.....but nay...your love of the crown sought to embolden you to hate us .......God we could have been strong together now we are Paddys

[@andrewruddy962]

You are in no way responsible for past government deeds. Some people live in the past and the wise live in the present. No historical baggage. Sadly a few in Ireland blame others for their own personal failures.

[@justliveandletlive]

@@pathpearleltd.8553 You still don't get it do you? I wasn't alive in the 1840's and my Great Great Grandparents had no power, or probably no knowledge of what went on (they were almost certainly illiterate). Strangely enough YOU weren't alive then either so why do you say WE? Pathetic hate filled flag wavers like you turn my stomach. Grow up and move on (or are you determined to carry on this bigotry?). Stop clinging to a badge or flag and get a life of your own.

[@davidpridmore2496]

Speak for yourself. Are you some sort of self loathing Englishman? You know that despite Brexit, you can still move to Ireland, might be best for all, given you despise your country so much. Pathetic.

[@fcb9950]

@@davidpridmore2496 I can only presume that you then love your country and are so proud of every piece of bilious hate it has inflicted across the globe? God it's no wonder the English are universally loathed and detested like no other.

[@janm2473]

Such a poignant tribute to this Easter Rising. Bless the Irish people and their cause.

[@m.w.]

They will never be forgotten!🕯🙏

[@lukedoyle1200BC]

That's the Ivory Coast flag you have there

[@m.w.]

@@lukedoyle1200BC 🙈so sorry.....

[@lukedoyle1200BC]

@@m.w. You're fine. It's no problem, just thought I'd point it out

[@bluepurgatory2927]

You can't even post the right flag or did you do it on purpose

[@m.w.]

@@bluepurgatory2927 ✔

[@republiccommandostopmotion2947]

Such a small island but such big hearts for our country.. thank you for helping us from the brits and making sure they didn’t take all of our beautiful green country. 🇮🇪

[@charalampostsouflidis7212]

I hope I can visit Dublin with my upcoming wife to take part on the free walking tour to show the story of the Easter Rising of 1916.In the Museum for the 100 years I stand still when Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Republic of Ireland.I am greek but I felt that this is important and has to be heared!

[@skippership7]

Some advice for you if I may, go on the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour, with Lorcan Collins. www.1916rising.com/cms/ trust me, you will pay a few Euros for the privilege but it will be well worth it, I promise. I am pretty pissed off myself at the moment as I should be in your country right now (Rhodes)...but I hope you enjoy your trip to Ireland. Good luck.

[@MrPaddymarley]

Welcome to ireland

[@williammccabe7340]

May be gone but never forget all the men and women to all of them

[@steveascension9626]

Ireland should be reunited & the English told to go home. What English? the descendants of those English who invaded Ireland, who still want to support & be English. Those who want to stay should be allowed to stay, but all Ireland should ruled by one Irish government. If Scotland can decide on it's future, all Ireland should be returned to the Irish people. Sovereignty for Ireland would be supported by all the UK commonwealth countries.

[@theseagulls7035]

What English?

[@jackiemainz2759]

That old country was ours as well . No such thing as that old country anymore that state was done in at partition and you can thank them "heroes" for it

[@davidpridmore2496]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Complete ignorance of facts and history but I’m sure your views play well at your local common room.

[@steveascension9626]

@@davidpridmore2496 When Scotland becomes free, then it will be Ireland's time. You cannot stop the marching plans of history.

[@davidpridmore2496]

@@steveascension9626 Silly little boy. Like I said earlier, you don’t understand history. Scotland became part of the GB, not at the end of a sword but because it had bankrupted itself during the Darian expedition. Nobody forced it to become part of GB, it did it through free choice. Frankly, I would love to see them become independent so we don’t have to hear them whine anymore and we don’t have to prop up their economy with English taxes. Good riddance.

[@donleo9356]

Those soldiers didn't fear anybody's breath.

[@amydavis4945]

Thank you for this! I just wish you hadn't been in such a hurry... I had to keep pausing it so I could actually read what was being said and of course that just took away the emotion of the song. I'd have rather the video be 10 minutes long and give enough time to actually READ what you wrote, rather than having to pause every time something written was shown.

[@benbhoy9]

Heroes .....One and All......Never Forget .....TAL ....☝️🇮🇪⭐️☘️

[@martinpatrick9915]

I'm part Irish,I am so angry at how the British treated the irish during the occupation of Ireland.

[@hanshanson9932]

@Diarmaid O'Riordan and rightly so in british sovereign land FGAU

[@paullooney8960]

@Diarmaid O'Riordan They already have, they are Irish,have you not assimilated to the fact that,not all Irish christians are catholic?

[@maskellmaolseachlainn6347]

@@hanshanson9932 Not really Hans. Planting foreigners on land that belongs to others isn't sovereign land. It's stolen land. But that's been Britain's MO throughout its depraved history. I live in hope that one day Britain's worldwide atrocities and crimes against humanity will be addressed, e.g., the countless millions who died in India while the British squatters siphoned its wealth; in Australia where they slaughtered and stole land from First Nations peoples who lived on those lands for an estimate 60,000+ years; in Ireland where hundreds of thousands starved to death during the Great Famine while British gunboats protected food exports destined for the UK; in the Middle East; in Pakistan; in Canada; etc. And the skin-crawling list goes on and on. And just FYI, Ulster long predates NI. I'm from Ulster. Don't you dare appropriate my history to suit your bigotry.

[@hanshanson9932]

@Diarmaid O'Riordan were we 😂😂😂 Still nice to see you like most rewrite history

[@highlandutilities]

Proper heroes, never forgotten

[@danielxosorov4861]

Greetings from RUSSIA to IRLAND !!❤❤❤

[@emoryking5278]

Prayers for Ireland.

[@Puca_Press]

Great video one minor thing though. The shot of the British shelling the GPO is take from a movie, with a bit of artistic licence, There never was a street directly facing the GPO as depicted in this shot.

[@damntheweather1962]

One other correction = Constance Markievicz was NOT second in command at Stephen's Green. That position belonged to Lt Poole who was second in command to Mallin and third in overall command of the ICA to Connolly - Mallin then Poole.

[@arthurfnshelby4335]

Hopefully my country Scotland can gain its independence without the suffering that our Celtic brothers endured.

[@skippership7]

I hope you gain your independence as well just as I hope Ireland will be united once again and at peace. However to be accurate, I'm afraid all this Celtic brothers thing is just BS as the Scots were / are part of the problem in Ireland, not the solution. For example, wasn't it a proud Scottish clansman that was responsible for these bloody and illegal executions in 1916?

[@Tourist1967]

@@skippership7 The Scots are experts at hanging on to other people's coat tails - it was the English when there was an Empire and loot in it, now they've rewritten their sordid imperial history to try and make common cause with Ireland............

[@skippership7]

@@Tourist1967 Sorry I am not clear, when you say "now they've rewritten their sordid imperial history" - which nation are you referring to please?

[@jimthomson8170]

@@skippership7 I accept that there were Scots who did and still do the bidding of their English masters. But the true people of Scotland have suffered under the tyranny of English rule as much as the poor people of Ireland. To us republican Scots, anyone who wears the queen’s uniform is considered English. There is no UK in Scotland. There should be no UK in Ireland.

[@johnbell3709]

Jim Thomson : Enjoy the freedom to espouse your view unmolested and safe at home. Hard won by better men and women who wore that uniform and still do.

[@skippership7]

Just to put the records straight here, Dev was not executed because he was "born in America". In fact he was just lucky with the timing of his arrest and his CM. Ask yourself why Tom Clarke (who was an American citizen) was executed if that was the case? The decision by the British Goverment to stop the executions had already been made by the time Dev was CM'd on 8th May, Connolly and Mac Diarmada were CM'd on 9th May but were still executed on the 12th May purely because like Tom Clarke they were signatories. Great song by the way!

[@siobhanoshea9979]

pity the irish today dont show the same balls and spirit

[@alexschuyler3691]

I may not be considered Irish to anyone living in Ireland but trust me I know my family history and I am very Irish and my family have fought the British for centuries

[@lizvalentine9223]

LOVE THIS SONG

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Why no mention of Eamon De Valera?

[@seancollins8271]

Ireland will never lose her pride when every generation that was born stood up to tyranny how a small country stood up to the might of the so called British empire....DUBLIN the city that fought an EMPIRE

[@cathalodiubhain5739]

Dublin being broadly conterminous with “The Pale” , long the bastion of British power and wealth in Ireland.

[@patsullivan9790]

They were supported by many esp americans. They were heroes for ireland...freedom fighters ireland is not on the world map part of the uk...it was under british rule like many other countries were.

[@maureenurquhart]

Yes so true Pat I am Scottish of Irish descent and I pray that Scotland will get its freedom from England Alba go Bragh 🇨🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@johnheffernan5130]

His name is edward (ned) daly not kelly.

[@stefanovele9410]

BIB BIG MISTAKE !!!! Edward "Ned" Kelly was an Australian gang leader and convicted police murderer. and not a 1916 leader. the photo at 2.,1,2 minute show Edward "Ned" Daly commandant of Dublin's 1st battalion during the Easter Rising and was executed by firing squad on 4 May 1916.

[@seamusmorculacrick]

My apologies, you are correct, it is Ned Daly. Thank you for pointing it out in CAPITAL LETTERS ! It is easy to make a mistake as you have highlighted with your "BIB BIG MISTAKE", I'm sure you meant big, not bib. A bib is something you put on a baby when feeding him or her.

[@nasty906]

Up the republic

[@bluepurgatory2927]

Your no longer a Republic you are a colony of the EU.

[@odonnchada9994]

@@bluepurgatory2927 The Evil EU. ☘🇮🇪

[@djbillybopdjbillybop2817]

@@bluepurgatory2927 ànd wait and see the UK will beg to get back.

[@simondaly4064]

Edward Daly not Kelly

[@mickybrennan3489]

Great video, shame you can't read what's said.

[@michaelchen8643]

The video text is presented to quickly read comfortably considering it like to get a few more frames with each text commentary

[@jossssean]

Glory to our heroes erin go bragh

[@davidhorsley2717]

A bloody revolution and subsequent civil war that didn't need to happen. The important point Ireland was Not a Colony, but a constituent part of the UK. It has therefore shown through the ballot box it wanted independence and therefore legal constitutional independence was coming, albeit slower than some would have preferred. Did the Easter rising rebels not realise they would be put down and the UK govt would quite reasonably insist on independence by constitutional means, rather than armed insurrection? all this at a time when English, Scots Welshmen were fighting alongside Irishmen (nationalist as well as loyalist) in truly global war for western civilisation? If the rebels had shown statesmanship an all 32 counties United Ireland could have had full Dominion (like Can Aus & NZ) status within a decade of 1916 (more than what was promised in the Govt of Ireland act), thereby avoiding a civil war and, more importantly, partition. Becoming a republic would have been possible later if wanted as indeed it was.

[@patsullivan9790]

Thwy wld never hv been given what they were promised....

[@ianmacdonagh45]

Nice little brother!

[@guywelsh9589]

Did you not proofread this before posting it? Half the writing is unreadable because of the background.

[@seamusmorculacrick]

I'm a glass half full man, so half the writing is readable. Proofread ? It's an amateur video

[@guywelsh9589]

@@seamusmorculacrick Yeah proofread, when you write stuff for people to read you need to make certain they can read it. The story of the Irish struggle is historically very important and surely deserves to be fully readable :-)

[@odonnchada9994]

☘🇮🇪🕊🕯🕯🕯🙏

[@hellomynameisjames]

Wonder what them heroes would think of the state ireland has became 2day

[@jonathanperry8331]

It's the same old theme since 1916 in your head in your head they are dying cranberries

[@mikepratt3314]

God Bless from SCOTLAND WE ALL KNOW WE R ALL THE SAME XXX

[@gigieinaudi24]

Non era facile con gli inglesi. Complimenti all’Eire

[@maskellmaolseachlainn6347]

Erano depravati

[@gigieinaudi24]

@@maskellmaolseachlainn6347 cosa dici?

[@maskellmaolseachlainn6347]

@@gigieinaudi24 Gli INGLESI erano depravati, non gli Irlandesi

[@gigieinaudi24]

@@maskellmaolseachlainn6347 ho detto qualcosa di strano?

[@archiemitchell8426]

What a shame they missed a lot of them!!

[@thedarkhugheshughes2640]

United ireland is coming real soon

[@llokkee]

A peculiarly southern take on the consequences of the Easter rising is that Ireland somehow 'won' its freedom. Since when does a nation that fights against foreign aggression ends up being partitioned with 6 of its 32 cou ties remaining under British rule constitute a victory? This southern narrative has been nurtured since the 1920s by the very same ilk that were subsequently armed and financed by the British to suppress opposition to the treaty and are the very same ilk who run the place now, namely the landlords and blueshirts of FG and FF. Have any of you actually read the proclamation? Videos like this merely perpetuate the myth that Ireland won when in fact the enemies of the people were the victors and who lord over all ye as we speak. Its fucking pathetic

[@ItzCTG]

facts 👏🏻

[@michaelking9772]

And what's your Solution ????

[@raymaxwell2940]

Lest we Forget All the Irish Regiments who fought in ww1 and did not return to a Hero's welcome Also my Ancestor General john Maxwell and his outstanding work in Dublin Regards folks from up the Road a bit in Northern Ireland you know in the UK

[@karl_thwub]

Your ancestor's monumental f**k up of executing the 1916 leaders lead to public sympathy for the rebels. Hell, one might even say it was he who lost the south. Bummer.

[@raymaxwell2940]

@@karl_thwub He was just a spoke in a very big wheel orders came from above pity he never had that Rebel bitch shot too

[@tonymcguinness3886]

Troll...

[@danbreen6946]

@@raymaxwell2940 What A Fud

[@maureenurquhart]

@@danbreen6946 Yes Henry what a Fudweasel Erin and Alba go Bragh

[@gavindouglas3196]

🇬🇧EU OUT OF ULSTER 🇬🇧

[@michaelbarry4055]

MAY ALL OF IRELAND ONCE AGAIN BE UNITED - UNDER JOHN BULL