Easter, Monday 24th, 1916.

A small band of rebels, including poets and teachers, actors and workers,

gathers in Dublin and tent on establishing an independent Irish Republic

and bringing about an end to 700 years of British rule.

Britain is engaged in war in Europe where its army of millions, including 200,000 Irishmen,

are suffering casualties on an unprecedented scale.

Britain's distraction presents the rebels with an opportunity and a glimmer of hope.

But the rising is compromised by chaos from the start.

Three days earlier on Friday, April 21st,

Britain's Royal Navy intercepts 20,000 weapons being smuggled into Ireland from Germany for the rebellion.

Convinced that without these weapons the rising is doomed,

Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers Owen McNeill

undermines the mobilization order issued by rebel leader Paulic Pierce.

The undermanding order causes utter confusion.

More than half of the rebels stay at home.

Despite the setbacks, the decision is made.

The rising will go ahead.

Revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution, revolution!

Revolutionary left-or-ady, oh now, opposed the system in your way, you know how.

You like the left to get the capital to slice and liberate the proletariat's mind.

For the world to class, for the quality, for the right to break fascist ideology,

to get in and turn it up loud.

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