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The year

16 is known for one event in Irish history, the Easter Rising.

On April the 24th, Easter Monday as it happened,

rebels seized buildings across Dublin beginning a week-long

battle with the authorities that saw large parts of the city centre destroyed.

This Republican uprising in Dublin will go on to transform Irish history.

In retrospect it's clear these were the opening shots of the Irish struggle for independence

from the United Kingdom.

However, as that fateful weekend approached, most Dubliners were oblivious to the fact that the city stood on the threshold of history.

This podcast focuses on three of those Dubliners and takes a look around Dublin on the eve of the rising, revealing what the city looked like, sounded like and even smelled like. This is a journey into the houses of the most wealthy citizens to the homes of those struggling at the margins.

We will visit prisons and workhouses and garner a sense of what Dublin was like on the eve of the most famous chapter in its long history.

Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.

My name is Finn Duwara and this is the calm before the storm Dublin on the eve of the

Easter rising. Everything has been thrown a bit off course in the last few weeks. I ended up having to have two operations since the last episode.

Thanks for all the well wishes from everyone on Patreon and on Twitter. It means a lot.

Fingers crossed, I'm getting back to myself but the

schedule is changing again so I'm going to postpone a return to partisans yet

again for a few weeks until I get myself fit, but there's some great content coming in the pipeline between now and then.

This includes a murder mystery from pork in the 19th century and a history of coffee in Ireland.

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