4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:01.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
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0:14.0 | In the name of God and of a dead generation |
0:17.0 | from which she has received her ancient tradition of nationhood, |
0:21.0 | Ireland through us summons her children |
0:24.0 | to her flag and strikes for her freedom. |
0:28.0 | I'm Heather Jones and this is the story of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising |
0:33.0 | and the way it changed history, |
0:35.0 | reviving Irish separatism and leading to the secession |
0:38.0 | of much of Ireland from the UK. |
0:51.0 | Reaction to this failed uprising would change the path |
0:54.0 | of British and Irish history forever. |
0:57.0 | From headlines of marching men |
1:02.0 | in squadrons passed by vines. |
1:12.0 | 100 years ago, the Great War came to Dublin. |
1:17.0 | I remember the phrase which Mr Pierce used. |
1:20.0 | We strike at noon. |
1:23.0 | For six days in Easter week 1916, |
1:26.0 | an insurrection against British rule in Ireland tore the city apart. |
1:31.0 | It was a school master's rising, it was a poet's rising. |
1:34.0 | What's the one question you would like to ask of the 1916 leaders? |
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