339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4)

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Easter Rising began in Dublin's General Post Office on Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, with Patrick Pearse’s dramatic proclamation of the Irish Republic. Led by republicans opposed to British rule in Ireland, this was the most significant uprising in more than a century - and changed the entire course of Irish and British history, with effects that still reverberate today. In today’s episode, Tom and Dominic return to the GPO in Dublin, as the brilliant Professor Paul Rouse tells the bloody story - at once inspiring, terrifying and heartbreaking - of the Easter Rising and its extraordinary aftermath. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:32.0	So Dominic, those are the closing lines of William Butler Yates's great
1:36.5	poem, Easter 1916, written about the Easter Rising, which we began this series, it seems a long time ago, with the proclamation
1:48.7	read by Patrick Pierce outside the GPA, where we are currently sitting as we reach the fourth and final
1:56.5	episode in our great sweep through the history of Ireland and its relations with Britain.
2:01.3	And it's extraordinary to be doing this story of the Easter Rising,
2:04.0	1916, surely the most discussed celebrated moment in Irish history.
2:10.6	It's extraordinary to be recording that in the
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