The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - Easter Rising

[@72mossy]

The War Of Independence started in Tipperary with the Soloheadbeg Ambush. My home town of Templemore, Co. Tipperary was shot up and burned by the brit soldiers and Tans. My grandfather was an active member of the IRA there. My grandmother who was a little girl going to school at the time remembered Tans taking pot shots at her and her sister with their rifles. 100 years have passed but will never be forgotten.

[@Conway-mt6fn]

As much as I loved this show and this episode, they raised the wrong flag. It wasn't the tri-colour, it was a simpler flag of all green with "Irish Republic" on it.

[@FionanUaMurchadha]

At both ends of the General Post Office, the Irish Republic flag and the Irish Tricolour were raised.

[@uploader10041986]

In reality Sean Lemass (then 16) spent the first day of the rising up the dublin mountains with his brother Noel. Later they joined the rebels, Noel was stationed at Wynnes Hotel, Sean was stationed in the GPO. After the Civil War Capt Noel Lemass was murdered by free staters and his body chopped to bits. Sean would be founding secretary of the Fianna Fáil party and later still the finest Taoiseach the country ever had.

[@Andrews_Wrestling_Life]

this series was amazing

[@61505]

this scene is better than RTE,s rebellion tv series.

[@patriotamerican3426]

It’s historically inaccurate if you ask me

[@61505]

@@patriotamerican3426 that its historically inaccurate definitely goes without saying.(However the Easter rebellion against British rule did occur in Dublin on April 2th 1916-you can resarch this in Irish history websites onthe internet- but was not all done in one day as depicted in young Indiana Jones).But what I meant was that a TV series on RTE was so dire that this episode of young Indiana Jones was more interesting to watch.

[@bennythargrave]

I forgot how much I loved this show when I watched it as a pre-teen

[@nickhanlon9331]

I had a friend who was at the horse show about a mile away. I am a descendent of Michael Collins who was there as well.

[@tonybarde2572]

Like the Americans, the Irish believed in Democracy, Liberty, and Equality. And so it was that the Irish fought and died for these ideals so that their home could become an independent Republic modeled on that of the United States.

[@tonybarde2572]

@Fíonán Murphy We will get them

[@tonybarde2572]

@Fíonán Murphy One day we will

[@212Eire]

The rising took a week or so not a few hours. Ah well they cant be historically acurate in everything

[@rich1874]

Why was he in Ireland in the first place? I remember watching this when I was younger but have forgotten the gist of it. The action scenes are pretty good I must say, anybody recognise Leo Dowling from Fair City as the bartender? "If there's fightin' they're after, why don't they go to France!". Epic stuff.

[@patrickbyrne3017]

Indy and his friend Remy left Mexico for Europe to enlist in the Belgian army. It just happened that they stopped in Ireland.

[@Deader87]

@HiroTheJapeneseTrain Awesome because Ireland & Germany are both the two countries that make up most of my ethnic background as an American!!

[@DavBlc7]

@KaiserJames That's right - The green represented catholics while the orange represented protestants and the white probably meant neutral or a flag of truce. Tricolor is OK but had to do different colour to avoid clashing with French ones. Ivory coast had same flag as Ireland! Tricolor flags appeared in some other countries like Mexico and Italy - Holland and Germany turn tricolors round.

[@timpatjoe]

we used anything we coulf get our hands on .

[@Blackberry1999-1]

My US friend great grand father fought this

[@onthewattle]

bbonner422 the IRA were not formed yet during the Easter Rising. Three militias took park. The nationalist Irish Volunteers, the socialist Irish Citizen Army and the woman’s militia Cumann Na mBan. The IRA weren’t formed until a couple of years later. I would guess he was in the Volunteers. There was a lot of confusion and contradiction when it came to the mobilisation orders.

[@pkart7]

@paradivo first major fighting began in 1916, that's why the guy in the beginning says, "why don't they fight in France?"

[@DLS95]

@paradivo The germans supplied the kar98s and they used everything they could get there hands on. it was in 1916

[@fishsama999]

The Kaiser supplied the IRA with Mausers in order to give the IRA a bit of firepower to divert British attention away from the Western Front. And this was 1916 Easter Rising.

[@OasisDublin]

The Irish tri-colour wasn't raised, was it? I thought a flag with the words "Irish Republic" in gold lettering on a green background was raised.

[@HiroTheJapaneseTrain]

@paradivo Germany sent Ireland arms prior to the rising.

[@southport97]

PBS Master Theater on steroids.

[@darthroden]

@paradivo The Mausers were probably from German agents or a submarine sending the Irish rebels supplies. One cannot rule out German involvement in order to divert British forces from the war on the Continent.

[@Dragunov8808]

@paradivo The Irish pretty much used what they could get their hands on. During WW1, Hoping that the Irish would cause enough problems for the British, the Germans effectively threw Mausers at the Irish.

[@skippership7]

What most people conveniently forget to mention is the fact that Connolly was part of the British occupying force in Ireland for 7 years and I have to strongly disagree with your comment on 1916 “achieving very little”… try telling that to true republicans especially those who opposed 3529…and who still keep the flame of liberty alive… and I remind you of the word he put his name to…“Indefeasible”

[@HiroTheJapaneseTrain]

@Deader87 wow same here! Next is Scottish

[@argonaut200]

2:37 did that british officer just kill his own soldier.... lol

[@Ringlord3434]

@OasisDublin both were raised

[@MrMe345]

Yes, I agree,but eh, the tans only arrived dring the 1920s, just s's ya kno

[@kashey2000]

Poor rebels, the losers never get any love from the populace. What is that song that is playing from 6:40 onwards in the background? Sounds very familiar but I cant place it.

[@KungfuCow5]

well duuuuuh.

[@rifleman1122]

at the time most people wanted nothing to do with the fenians

[@ukaszkaminski627]

6:51 What's happened with the girl's hat?

[@OasisDublin]

@seanogcarey That has long since been dealt with but cheers anyway.

[@CorsetLebelle]

that and they felt haveing an upriseing well many of there sons and husbands where fighting in france and showing true irish spirite was an insult and disguesting

[@oog2370]

Ah gway with yourself there heroes

[@1987ianpower]

ane the guns were german

[@donallbreathnach9998]

Im related to micheal Collins, just so thats out there...

[@eoghanlynch167]

How

[@onthewattle]

bigrider2806 what? Collins was as Irish as they come haha

[@mrfrogg46able]

i never liked tbe british

[@DavBlc7]

@KaiserJames That's right - The green represented catholics while the orange represented protestants and the white probably meant neutral or a flag of truce. Tricolor is OK but had to do different colours to avoid clashing with French ones. Ivory coast had same flag as Ireland! Tricolor flags appeared in some other countries like Mexico and Italy - Holland and Germany turn tricolors round.