The Tragic Story Of The 1916 Easter Rising

A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand and of the innocent men and boys, executed because of what transpired in The Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
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[@TimelineChannel]

Watch Part 2 here! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4bMho2qrbBkaZo

[@JohnnyV30483]

When will your sound mixer learn to lower the background sound fx and soundtrack and increase the narrator voice?

[@agabrielhegartygaby9203]

No

[@agabrielhegartygaby9203]

Watch the Burning of Cork parts 1 to 4 on KZbin

[@jimmyryan5880]

"How dare those Irish forces not be the joke we assumed them to be."

[@stiofanofirghil1916]

The Irish citizens army particularly.. #ÉiríAmachNaCásca 🇮🇪

[@adamcheklat7387]

These are foolish men who underestimate their enemy. Their tactics, their logistics and above all, their cause.

[@lindsayhengehold5341]

Great video on this event, thank you for producing it!

[@henriparatte132]

Easter 1916 is the birth of Irish independence but this movie shows how and why it turned out to be such a tragic event on all sides, the line by WB Yeats about the birth of a terrible beauty showing it perfectly. Weapons had to be obtained from Germany but weren't, Irish lads were killed in France in what we all know now to have been the most absurd and senseless war imaginable, British imperial mentality was at its apex, and it is not easy to coordinate a military coup against a massively mobilized larger army - when civilians themselves are largely divided and afraid anyway to be seen as 'rebels'. In Halifax, Canada, it took decades before in the 2010s commemoration of Easter 1916 was finally officially recognized when you talked about Irish history. And yet out of the ruins and executions came the Irish republic we know today. Maybe the first of countries colonized by England to claim its independence after the USA. Great movie, I just wish we could see more.

[@Flyingscotsman93]

When Queen Victoria visited Dublin a few year's before her death the crowds that turned up to greet her lined the whole route no snipers to take her out now that would send a message.In 1916 the British had tbe small matter of a worldwide war in 1916.

[@skippership7]

Unfortunately the Irish Republic we know today IS NOT the Republic as laid out in the 1916 Proclamation. "We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible". That is not the Republic we have today.

[@Flyingscotsman93]

Never actually left the British commonwealth till 1949.

[@skippership7]

@@Flyingscotsman93 Irrespective of when the Republic of Ireland left the commonwealth, even today, the implementation of Appendix II still makes the Brits look like a bunch of incompetent numpty's.

[@whoami30204]

it isn't the same as the US, though. the americans who declared independence were just englishmen living somewhere else, ireland was subjugated and still had a native population that declared independence

[@michawozniak5955]

Great stuff. Hope to see more. And I hope I don't have to wait for it until the next Easter.

[@bettypendleton8043]

Hope to see more was this it ?

[@nightintheruts617]

Easily the best documentary I've ever seen, its like half movie, EXCELLENT quality. I would love to see more in this style 👍💯

[@jayc3110]

A good documentary film, but ruined by an excessively loud and intrusive soundtrack. What is the necessity for a soundtrack, while someone is narrating? Do you like music played loudly, while you are speaking?- -. Hoping you will incorporate the suggestion into your next upcoming videos. Thank you and best wishes.

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

A VERY good comment. Background music playing through a narrative is ridiculous.

[@LivingCrusader]

I found the narrator to be far to soft-spoken. Can hardly hear a word he says.

[@jelan64]

Couldn't agree more...to all 3 comments above!! Especially the unnecessary overbearing music! So disappointed as I was looking forward to learning about this piece of history I'd never known of. Stopped watching @ 4:12...too much effort to actually hear the story!

[@SeeSawMacaw]

Agree, and so many otherwise good videos and ruined by this same thing. Knock it off dummies.

[@Superfandangoo]

Agreed, i feel that the soft quiet narration didn't belong in the scenes where it was put. action, music and narrating all at once. 20 minutes in I had enough

[@kayakdan48]

My relatives coming to America in the late 1890's didn't speak English...just Irish. They were given a new name that the immigration officials could pronounce...Kivlin. Made genealogy attempts on that side of the family a chore. Fortunately, ALL sides of the family were Irish for several decades, so we searched from them. Rural Sligo held lots of native speakers then...

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

My ancestors came from County Clare, County Limerick, and County Monaghan and migrated (part of the Great Migration) to Sunderland. My studies of their historicity shows documentation that their name changed from Halpin to Alpin because of English Administrators writing it down wrong due to their inability to understand the Irish accent.

[@MontyGumby]

so what's the actual name ?

[@karmayt8956]

I’ve found a lot of my Irish America genealogy in the Irish Society and Catholic Church records. I never heard Irish language and know so little of its history. Wish they got on with England better. Their history is very intertwined with England and not always in a good way.

[@brendanmctigue9641]

County Claire and Mayo. 1916 immigration to America

[@brendanmctigue9641]

My father's uncle was Mike McTigue light heavyweight champion of the world in the 30'

[@davidschaftenaar6530]

I mean no disrespect in saying this, but I'm Dutch and it is eerie how much Irish sounds like the northern dialects of my own language (or the other way around for that matter). It's to the point that my brain keeps trying to understand what I'm hearing instead of focusing on the damn subtitles lol.

[@chrisbacos]

Speaking Irish in the show that's so cool.

[@angelabrown2360]

WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE SPEAK, ENGLISH?

[@azazelswings6194]

It's Gaelic

[@chrisbacos]

@@azazelswings6194 I know that.

[@michaelhughes2236]

I was surprised by the number of characters speaking as gaelige actually! Irish wasn't taught widely in schools at that time and the average Dubliner spoke English only, as they'd done for generations. Conradh na Gaelige (the Gaelic League) ran Irish classes, but even with those classes, few would have achieved the fluency of so many in the film. If the characters upon whom the film is based spoke Irish, then portraying them doing so would be entirely accurate. Some participants in the Rising, like Pearse and Ceannt, could speak Irish. But if the characters only spoke English - like most Dubs of the time - having them speak fluent Irish not only misrepresents history, but also the linguistic culture of those brave Dubliners.

[@azazelswings6194]

@@chrisbacos sure

[@notarehersal]

Ireland, one of the most incredibly fascinating countries in the world considering its size.

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

my 2nd DauGhTers Das has also boy given namen MichaEL born on 30. Dezember 19 72 SeaSon WinTer This is

[@garyhughes1664]

It seemed to end rather abruptly. Is there a part 2?

[@robydee920]

Yes there is.

[@michaelzhang5841]

there is yes, should be number 1 of the videos suggestion bar

[@SK-le1gm]

Thanks ! I just got all the Pogues LPs, I’m sure this will provide some cool context.

[@craigshaw3525]

Idiot

[@SK-le1gm]

@@craigshaw3525 Pogue mahone 🖕🏽

[@unionjack84]

The movie Michael Collins highlights some of the Easter Rising

[@gezzarandom]

Only the ending when it had been crushed.

[@unionjack84]

@@gezzarandom The movie begins with the Easter Rising. It shows the execution of the leaders

[@anthonymielich743]

I myself would recommend the movie, the treaty. Also the Wind that shakes the Barley. These Movie are based on History. And Not Hollywood.

[@eaglesfan226]

I saw his movie

[@susierosido790]

Honoring you for all you do. Susie from Bluegrass Land, USA

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Thanks susie! Don't honor me, just praise me.

[@susierosido790]

Hahaha, I'm fascinated with all your shows. I do praise you. I'm a disabled old granny with multiple sclerosis. My brain needs to be fed, so I come to your shows to fill up. Thanks so much.

[@susierosido790]

Ireland is my most favorite country in the world. God sent me to 41 countries, not with my money. So history anywhere fascinates me.

[@davidmckenna972]

My father's mother's brothers were involved in the civil war that followed. I will not name them but there is a cell in Kilmainham Gail with his name on the cell door. Only two men ever escaped from the prison & he was my Grandmothers brother. We were told never to talk about it, I know how they got out of the prison but my lips will be kept tight until I die. Ireland has a sad history, there was always a whistle-blower. Things would have been much different if it was not for the first WW, up to 200,000 Irishmen fought for the English in France. If only half of them stayed at home there would be no trouble in the north part of the island today. I feel sad when I see so many Irish names playing sport for other countries knowing where the names had come from, but some of these people haven't got a clue where their names came from. I have been praying to God that I'll see my country be free from the crown of England since I was a schoolboy in the early 1960s.

[@sandidavis820]

Yes, we NEED a free Ireland, ALL of Ireland

[@christopherfritz3840]

Do you have a comment on the death of QE2🇬🇧?

[@sandidavis820]

@@christopherfritz3840, if your question is for me... not really, england should have let Ireland, Scotland and all of the countries they have a hold of, go free a long time ago.

[@memyselfi8461]

God bless you and your family sir.

[@remaguire]

"A Terrible Beauty is the story of the men and women of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, Irish and British, caught up in a conflict many did not understand..." Perhaps the British "boys" didn't understand, but I can tell you that after 700 years of British rule, the Irish most definitely understood why they were fighting.

[@jimthecaptainsmate3542]

Interesting. Being Irish it takes some stupidity to think everyone wanted home rule...they didnt and alot still wished we'd stayed as part of the UK. I certainly wince in shame at the treatment of Irish WW1 veterans and their families by Nationalists and the disgraceful cosying upto the Nazis by our government during the war years. You dont speak for Eire. 🇮🇪

[@ryanvoll7088]

Is the Irish language closely related to the Germanic language? Some of the words I recognise in German, that’s why I ask. Because I always thought it was Celtic. But I have no idea how much Celtic and Germanic relate/share.

[@sirmurf]

I think that’s probably the Norse influence.

[@jimmyryan5880]

They are both indo-European but thats as far as the relationship goes but there are probably a few loanwords Owen for example comes from Johan

[@ScarlettKitsune]

Irish, Welsh, and Scots Gaelic are regarded as Celtic languages which has two branches, Brythonic (Welsh, Cornish) and Goidelic (Irish, Scots Gaelic). They're not related to any Germanic language, though there was some crossover with ancient Norse with the Gaels of Shetland to produce the now dead language Norn. English is actually more closely related to Germanic than any of the Celtic languages.

[@sovereignbrehon]

It's older, i believe. It's one of the root languages!

[@christopherfritz3840]

AH☠ lost a golden opportunity to win WW2 when his intelligence operatives FAILED to infiltrate the IRA in 1940. Of course he would have viewed the Irish as 'Aryan'! Just think how things would have turned out if he had quickly captured the BEF at Dunkirk and separated the Irish recruits. Then send those arms captured 25 years before BACK 🇨🇮 💣💥💀

[@sfBE11]

If I'm not mistaken the narrator sounds like Colm Meaney.

[@thudor1]

That's definitely him.

[@mwilson7842]

I'm fasinated by the use of Irish language.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

It's the Irish language? It sounds Germanic with all the guttural arguhs and such.

[@lilly2b1]

@@dr.barrycohn5461 it’s nowhere near the German language in sound. You need to go listen to both again

[@mrjechill]

This is no Irish ive ever heard, sounds more like Welsh.

[@mrjechill]

Gaelic.

[@lilly2b1]

@@brianmoran1196 I understood a lot of it 🤷‍♀️I put what I didn’t down to dialects and the fact I’ve not spoken it in nearly 25 years 😲. You don’t use it in Australia 😂😂

[@snodrog5]

Where's the next episode?

[@matthewlo55]

This video will be a fine addition to my collection.

[@LaHayeSaint]

The Irish Uprising of 1916 was as ill fated as the battle of Culloden Moor , fought on 16 April 1746, 150 years earlier. The rebellion should have been called off, at least for the foreseeable future, to prevent a massacre.

[@johnboylan3591]

The spark that lite the flame to 1919/1921

[@LaHayeSaint]

@@johnboylan3591 John -- Didn't the troubles begin even long before that, eg, the Battle of the Boyne?

[@thetoaster501th4]

2nd part when?

[@michaelharvey9758]

Thanks

[@boneless_shrimp]

Theres a part 2 right?

[@roverM30ds]

A part 2, as in the complete infiltration of the provisional IRA in the 70's, 80's and 90's and they're eventual military capitulation.....ie no "unified socialist irish republic" through violence. Part 2 is my favourite of the 2 parts 😉.

[@shamarunger5908]

@@roverM30ds UGH, Or you could not be a mean girl and tell us if you know about a second episode. People can't learn about things until they LEARN about them.

[@juanmanu9652]

Apart from Boyzone and Westlife, Ireland is a great place with talented people.

[@paulflah4562]

Val doonican ?

[@juanmanu9652]

@@paulflah4562 Is that Gaelic?? What does that mean in English??

[@conalrosbotham5846]

U2 too and Connor McGregor

[@BusyBrittain]

@@juanmanu9652 its an old singers name

[@Flyingscotsman93]

@@BusyBrittain No his name is Juan and supports Man u 🤣

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

Fascinating!

[@kylemyers971]

Why has the uploader made this video unavailable in Ireland? Very odd.

[@nbenefiel]

The 1916 heroes gave birth to modern Ireland. “Now and in time to be, wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty is born”-WBYeats, Easter 1916

[@lluisbosch2683]

It's a bit ridiculous that only the Irish Volunteers speak Irish, while the rest of the people in Dublin speak English. Makes no sense

[@bookNerd151]

It was a way to keep sensitive information from untrustworthy (and *potentially* untrustworthy) people. Like a secret code (think Navajo code-talkers helping the U.S. win WWII just by speaking their native language). The really baffling thing is that this shows ALL the Irish Volunteers speaking the Irish language ALL the time. Admittedly I wasn’t there, but even though the Easter Rising was over a century ago, Ireland (and especially Dublin) was very anglicized at this point. Even very patriotic Irish people were probably not that fluent in what used to be their mother tongue (or at least they alternated between the two languages like multilingual ppl today). Which is sad....the British , over centuries of colonial rule, tried to ban public use and education of the Irish language, and they were pretty dang successful. I think they use the language so heavily here to help the viewer distinguish between sides - both English and Irish people look similar (ethnically), were wearing similar brown/olive green uniforms, and were involved in a chaotic military uprising that didn’t involve opposite sides on different sides of a giant battlefield.

[@remaguire]

My father was born in Ireland in 1907, my mother in 1914. Neither of them spoke much Irish. The language had been destroyed years before for a variety of reasons, not all the fault of the British. To reinvigorate the language and make Ireland more Irish, the "Gaelic League" was formed in 1893. The aim of the League was to promote the teaching of Irish throughout Ireland. Many took to it, but many didn't. There were leaders of the Rising who spoke Irish. Eamonn Ceannt comes to mind. Not sure all did. I can tell you that very few of my relatives in Ireland today (and I have a LOT) speak Irish even though it is mandatory in the schools. There are places in Ireland called "Gaeltacht" which are parts of the Ireland where Irish is supposed to be predominantly spoken. The people there are encouraged to do this by funding from the government. Sadly, at least in one Gaeltacht, the language is still dying. I was in the Donegal Gaeltacht about 10 years ago and the lady of the house at the B&B I stayed at told me that the young people were turning away from Irish. It was people of her generation (now in their sixties) who were the last bastion of the language. Whether that is just one woman's opinion I don't know, but I've heard many Irish say that they "can't stand the sound of it"! However, to your point, it makes sense that many didn't speak Irish and some who did.

[@MD_Slaine]

@@remaguire A lot of conjecture here. And it was the fault of the British.

[@jimthecaptainsmate3542]

@@MD_Slaine 😂😂😂

[@bookNerd151]

@@MD_Slaine Wait, so you mean....just because one person heard or experienced something doesn't mean it's a Profound Universal Truth? But...what if that person is a white dude though? Surely in that case he's the expert ; )

[@andreasleonardo6793]

Too nice video...from excellent historic channel

[@daviddring2365]

That Lancer charge was mildly ridiculous

[@Melvorgazh]

Ah! #06:01 that’s me chum Lochlann from Ros na Rún 😹 I last saw him t the première of Pilgrimage in Brussels in 2017. A nice fellow

[@nbenefiel]

In 1367, the Statute of Kilkenny outlawed the speaking of Irish in Ireland. It had to be read to the people in Irish because only a few spoke English.

[@skippership7]

I do wish some of these so called 'Historians" would do some proper research and not keep quoting these same old "school boy" errors, it make my blood boil when I see (as in this video) things are simply not true or at best inaccurate. All honour to the 1916 Rebels, The Irish Republican Brotherhood, The Irish Citizen 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.

[@kylemyers971]

What errors?

[@skippership7]

@@kylemyers971 Well 19:13 for a start, this is complete nonsense and hence the comment at 34:55 - no, not extraordinary at all, just good pre planning by the First Lord of the Admiralty who had already informed the British Cabinet that the Rising was due to start over the Easter weekend and made advanced preparations. (the usual thing I'm afraid, spies and informers). Not to understand this is to completely miss the British view point which puts a completely different perspective on things when you consider the real British intent and plot that goes back to Oct 1915.

[@sampsychic3145]

When you realise the brutal way the Black and Tans treated the Irish, one can understand why the IRA came into being. However. Instead of fighting the British Army, it escalated into killing their own people, as is happening again as I write.

[@jimmyryan5880]

That IRA are in Mali protecting civilions and work along side the British army. The ones in the north stole the name and sullied it

[@AndrewOliverHome]

@@jimmyryan5880 the Irish Defence Force are not the IRA. They are in Mali as part of an EU mission. The military and police in both Eire and Northern Ireland are carefully named to avoid using historical and tainted names that could offend any of the groups involved.

[@Did.You.Forget]

*Nervously* Umm... Happy Easter?

[@jamesthejoker7415]

They had to know the comments would get political for this video.

[@Did.You.Forget]

@@jamesthejoker7415 hah they knew EXACTLY what they were doing

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

@ Marc Darren: Easter is an opporturtune moment to advertise NO MORE NAILS don't you think?

[@michaelpipkin9942]

Music is to loud.

[@Kriswixx]

2:48 sounds like Miles O'brien from tREK DOING THE vo.

[@iainstewart371]

It is Colm Meaney. I worked with him, very nice man.

[@Kriswixx]

@@iainstewart371 he's a good dude. much respect.

[@iainstewart371]

He was great in The Commitments

[@thudor1]

He pulled off a good Welsh accent in The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain. 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@chrischambliss9098]

I can't wait for this book I got to reach the world. You can't erase that, Boy'eee.

[@Cadadadry]

To Timeline : sound level of the speaker is twice too low for stereo systems. Please solve this !

[@robcampbell6320]

God bless Ireland. If only the Scots had the same courage.

[@commissaryarrick9670]

The Scots were very brave . They were just alot closer to England and England worked harder to conquer them . The Scots faced relentless English attacks for centuries

[@sandidavis820]

I have Irish, Scottish, Dutch and Native American blood in my veins. My heart is in all, but more in Ireland.

[@xi7837]

​@@sandidavis820 No your just American

[@lucidmoment71]

@@commissaryarrick9670 The Scots invaded England more than the other way round.

[@Valhalla88888]

@@commissaryarrick9670 u must be an American the Scots took over England In 1603 it was the House of Stuart that caused many problems for the Irish not the English it was later that a Welsh Prime Minister Lloyd George who sent in the British army so stop blaming the English

[@shamarunger5908]

Cant find the 2nd episode on youtube? Anyone know where it's hiding?

[@WJack97224]

Empires collapse. The Brits collapsed their own empire because it was immoral and several million people were killed in the process. The lunacy of saying that it was a shame that those poor English lads died in Ireland when they should have died in France is disgusting. The Brit leaders never had a shortage of men to feed to the abattoirs / meat grinders.

[@60ri52]

The narrator is too quiet. Bad sound

[@SlyBlu7]

Just gonna ignore the Irish Citizen's Army fighting in the GPO then? Wouldn't want to throw Socialism and labour rights into the mix, would we? :/

[@iamthe12th]

I hope they get to that in part two.

[@geovanniali6060]

The fools the fools the fools.... O dononavan rossa

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

This seems to appeal to the few who know what this history is all about.

[@jamesthejoker7415]

It was quite a significant moment, after all it did lead to a 30 year long active conflict of which the United Nations had to intervene. It’s pretty ignorant to say something like that I think.

[@jamesthejoker7415]

@@carlstanford7607 Well I wouldn’t go that far like...

[@CradaOC]

Is that Fran narrating this, 'The Universe Nidgey, the universe'

[@USAnumberONE]

Rest in Peace Thomas Ashe

[@barryb90]

Fun fact he was the actor Gregory Peck's uncle.

[@byazura9824]

This makes the foggy dew more sad

[@kriegenjoyer6913]

trueee

[@michaelking9772]

Did your man the Lancher really charge like that ?????If so Brave man.!!!

[@christophersimon8339]

Mad though, 10th century weapons against 20th.

[@anthonymielich743]

When I first seen this movie. I could not understand how the English Troops were Surprise by the Irish reply. After all, after 800+ years A persecuting the Irish people for being Irish. Sorry I have no sympathy for the English troops who were there.

[@benmoriarty4853]

"English", I wonder why you use the words English troops? they were British troops. Are we to believe that only the English are to blame for the bloody mess in 1916.

[@JosephGilhooley-b2l]

Ï find it amazing that you do not include a major participant in the battle of Mount St. Bridge in a what purpurts to be a historical account of the action. I refer to Joe Clarke. Is it possible that it is because that until the the day he died he remained a commited Rebuplican !

[@thefilmsett]

The guys who play the british Lts frim The Sherwoods are actually Irish actors Hugh O Connor and Noel Whelan

[@orionxtc1119]

AGAIN, yet another Irish documentary that cannot be ssen in Ireland without a VPN!!!!!!!

[@jamesthejoker7415]

Another reason to join the North 😃 (Only joking, alright that was a *joke* people)

[@tonybarde2572]

The story of a revolution

[@Millenwise83]

Really wanted to enjoy this video, but the background noise/music is far too loud over the top of much of the narration.

[@lucabrasi3964]

Need to sort the sound out, the narrators voice is too quite and the background music is too louf

[@Charlimarteli]

A decent documentary film drowned out and ruined by excessively loud dramatic music...oh, and Dan Snow...he also ruins it as well

[@declan3906]

Hey Cuz!

[@jesusbruceleechrist3468]

The background music should be called foreground music, i can barely hear the narrator most of the video

[@spookerredmenace3950]

Brave men fighting for their freedom

[@ButtSauceversion1]

Terrorists actually.

[@jamesthejoker7415]

Sadly they all became terrorists towards the 60s, believe me whenever I say there’s another horrible side to this...

[@Mujangga]

Oui, pareil comme l'FLQ.

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

@@ButtSauceversion1: How so? Were the French, the Dutch, the Scandinavian etc Resistance during WW2 terrorists? Nope, they were the resistance fighting an invading occupying alien force so no different to Ireland. I'm sure if you went to France and proffered that the French Resistance were terrorists you would end up not being in a good position (if indeed you got out alive).

[@OldDunollieman]

Murdering morons actually.

[@puppamonster3]

Where is the rest of this documentary?

[@DarkGlass824]

Chief Miles Obrien narrating.

[@eugeniomariopazielli8478]

I'm trying out a simulation game that deals with just this topic. Storm above dublin. I will watch it with interest. Thanks

[@MWR62]

Had to be done...

[@LaHayeSaint]

The courageous rebellion seemed doomed from the start. There were insufficient guns, men and ammunition. Vital communications were non-existent, as there were no radios at that time. Without communications, the operation was doomed to failure as the resistance could not be co-ordinated. Also, men should have taken 3 days rations and water, necessary for fighting in built-up areas. There was a total lack of heavy weaponry. Mortars would have been very useful, but were absent. Machine guns were absent, and these were badly needed.

[@sirmurf]

The rebels were hoping that there actions would provoke a general uprising. Also, an order countermanding the rising meant the majority of the Volunteers didn’t show up. But the reality was they didn’t really expect to win.

[@chrischambliss9098]

When the irish did fight, very small amount of casualties, they hired French Mercenaries like in the Battle of the Boyne.

[@g_g8537]

Was no "french mercenaries" in 1916, battle off the boyne was 300 years before this.

[@YorkGod1]

whens the second part coming???

[@paulgartner4619]

the close captioning does not hear irish very well

[@dennisgreene7164]

These actors don't sound like native Irish speakers. Listen to the Quiet Girl or Black 47 - so much more authentic. They are speaking Irish like a foreign language here.

[@temasek65]

Double tough they are, them Irish eyes!

[@ck1643]

Ahhhh..... The british snatched defeat from the jaw of victory

[@Farfromhere001]

Tiocfaidh ár lá!

[@B-Th-Change]

…said the man from the daily mail.

[@patriotamerican3426]

What are those brown uniforms mixed with the green ones every Irish Volunteers uniform was green same goes for the citizens army uniform

[@terrygrossmann2295]

Please excuse my ignorance. Is the Irish language widely used?

[@debradowling800]

No, it's not.

[@jimmyryan5880]

Its death has been overstated but its not the majority either. A lot of the leadership we either Irish teachers or into the Gaelic revival. Also some people would have been from the west where its still spoken in pockets.

[@michaelhughes2236]

Nope! Irish is taught in schools today, but in 1916 it was not widely taught. While Irish classes were run for interested adults, and some rebels would likely have tried learning it, your average Dubliner would have been no more fluent in Irish than in Japanese.

[@gerardosalazar161]

Please somebody explain to me in which way we’re the SS different from the British when dealing with the rebellion?

[@Imyourhuckleberry01]

Dealing with the rebellion or dealing with the rebels after the rebellion, which are two different things? Firstly the rebels actions were not supported by the Irish population, in fact local people swore at and spat on the rebels as they were being arrested, so the Rising was not popular with the Irish people let alone the British and unlike the SS the Brits did provide courts martial process for the rebels...that's one difference for starters and of course 69 rebels had the death sentence commuted to short term imprisonment, I don't think the SS would have done that do you? Let's remember also before we start throwing stones that Irish Free Staters executed far more brave Irish Republicans 1922-1923 than the Brits did in 1916.

[@kathygrey1433]

Speaking "Irish"? Is the correct name for that language, Gaelic? Or what?

[@iamthe12th]

Just Irish.

[@kathygrey1433]

@@iamthe12th there is a language called "Irish"? Seriously?

[@jimmyryan5880]

The country is Ireland. The language is Irish. Anyone who tells you different is a troll.

[@chrischambliss9098]

No Irish templars laddy, when every other country did. Ireland not a part of the Roman Empire either laddy. Why do you have that fake flag, laddy?

[@larry1824]

Tragedy for everybody

[@pradeepsureshv716]

which language are they speaking

[@iamthe12th]

Irish.

[@MalcolmDavidWelsh]

There young men just 17 from Nottingham and Derby

[@chrischambliss9098]

Just so you know the French are Germans that spoke Latin. The Baddest of the bad of the Roman Empire. Known as the Foederati. The French Empire still exists today laddy.

[@kathygrey1433]

AncestryDNA says I'm 80% European, mostly Irish. I live in Massachusetts, where a "Boston accent" includes a broad "a" like the "a" in "carpenter" at kzbin.info/www/bejne/kICxdIh5f6tgmsk

[@JMARLOWE1972]

The Volunteers screwed up big time. Then the British immediately screwed up worse…..

[@andrewcorlett4795]

Posted it in the Sunday papers - only in Ireland lol

[@maureenelsden1927]

The Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey gave politicians and Northern Ireland's mi5 leave to use me in talks with Sinn Fein/IRA in the early 1990's to bring about the initial 1994 Cease Fire, when they did not have me to use at all. When Mr Gerry Adams was asked by reporters the reason for the Cease Fire, he replied, "A piece of the jigsaw puzzle fell into place," meaning me. George Carey at the same time used me to introduce a liberal re-marriage of the divorced into the Church of England and to persuade Dublin of a divorce law, when he did not have me to use in that way, either. I wrote to George Carey to say that I was the central leading person in God's plan for His Kingdom in these countries of the British Isles, to see if there was any interest, and because I was having a terrible struggle. From 1973-1981, the Roman Catholic religious world refused to know. The Anglo-Irish relationship and marriage do come into God's plan for His Kingdom in my family. But, the institutional religious world, both Roman Catholic and Church of England, and the British and Irish political worlds do not fit in this jigsaw puzzle. I am not a piece in the jigsaw puzzles of the institutional religious world and political world.

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

The price of imperialism is the lives of young men.

[@kriegenjoyer6913]

true

[@mohammadrezakhani2539]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍

[@Brian1Graves]

Beauty? Seem to have been a lot of Ozzies there too.

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

am born on April 28. 1966 This was whERE EasTer was over 1966

[@marcingrzybek8516]

Those Irish... Aren't they speaking with Yankee accent? :V

[@jimmyryan5880]

No. All the accents are accurate.

[@christophersimon8339]

No, they aren't

[@fbee6844]

Music is overpowering

[@noeenricodomanais2517]

105 years 🇮🇪

[@blueadept4689]

What language are they speaking, is that Celtic? I've never heard of it before...

[@BusyBrittain]

Irish

[@michaelwackers6475]

BS! The "Ester Rising" was a backstabbing betrayal!

[@thedrugdealerinthehomedepot]

The English have never cared for the Irish. After centuries of persecution and oppression all the English have done is cause disaster after disaster, it's not betrayal when the Irish were never treated as friends to begin with.

[@kriegenjoyer6913]

​@@thedrugdealerinthehomedepotTrue!

[@tomcollins4617]

MY GRANDFATHER FROM CLONEGAL WAS THERE