I hope its historical accurate too, the uprising was very unpopular at the start and there were boos and Jeers outside the GPO when the Rebels first made an appearance.

Will make a change from Downturn Abbey over the Christmas period……

Enda was done more harm to this country and it’s people, than the IRA ever did. How many killed themselves due to government policy and decision making??

@ Cllr Malachy Quinn

peace while we sweep murder and abuse under the rug? no thanks

“RTE production so I’m expecting Enda to be fighting in the GPO bravely for his country”

In my best theatrical trailer voiceover tone…..

“They died so that Apple could avoid tax”

…..And so slab could pay it like the rest of us, but no. And look who’s defending him.

Imagine if the 1916 rising never took place. We’d probably have had a vote and our independence by now.

There is a rumor, Merkel & Ends are into bondage Joan has been dumped (apparently because she’s useless)

will Brian do for 1916 what his father Brendan did for Martin Cahill ?

@ Paul Mc

was that before or after he closed down the Vatican embassy ?

Jamming, when did apple come to Ireland again?

The only people who watch RTE these days are rural folk with no broadband option.

There’s always options. Read a book, have a game of scrabble or naked twister if you’re not in the mood for rooting around in a bag of tiles hoping for a ‘u’ to sort out that ‘q’.

The birth of our nation through the blood sacrifice of heroic men who gave their lives for our freedom.
The historical enormity of the moment.
The course of Irish history altered forever.
And RTE treats the nation to a soap drama about the love life of a civil servant called May.
From Cork.

Would you feel better if he was from Waterford , Tommy ?

Tommy why did you change your surname again ?

Have to agree, tuned in via their app. Like watching Groundhog Day, same people since the station opened in the 50`s. Zzzzzzzzzz. The only good thing they have is the News and they have cobwebs, saying the same thing year in year out. Zzzzzzzzz

Shh!
(I was excommunicated)

Ah red thumbs relax I was only winding Tommy up , I actually find his comments very interesting .

Sorry Tommy , I’ll keep it a secret from now on ….

@ Tommy When you refer to “the birth of our nation”, I hope you remember that the Republic envisaged by the men amd women of 1916 has yet to be attained. None of them went out and gave their lifeblood in order to win a 26 county state or a partitioned country. Tom Clarke, the main organiser of the Rising, from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, didn’t go out and fight for Co. Tyrone’s right to be partitioned from the rest of his nation. Such a shame that the country’s continuing partition is the real big, shameful ‘elephant in the room’ of the state’s 1916 commemorations.

“Especially as RTE during the 70′s was virtually contolled by SF/IRA”. I’ve read some remarkable statements on this site over time, but that one takes the biscuit. To claim that RTÉ were ever a bastion of the provisional movement takes fantasy to proportions usually reserved for hollywood blockbuster script writers. This is the same organisation that, in the era Dermot mentions, was under the restriction of Section 31, a piece of state media censorship legialation introduced solely to stiffle Sinn Féin and a piece of media censorship that RTÉ would later go to the supreme court over, in order to argue for the right to further limit on IT’S OWN freedom of speech. This is the same RTÉ which, to basically every holistorian in the land, was described as having been infiltrated in the early 70′s by the Workers party, a group most viciously, bitterly anti-SF as anyone else at the time. This is the same RTÉ which, in 1973, was openly condemned by the National Union of Journalists for consistently toeing the government line on all “security” issues…in other words, on matters relating to the conflict. This is the same RTÉ which neglected to examine accusations of British state involvement in the Dublin/Monagahan bombs in 1974. This is the same RTÉ which, for the most part of the 70′s, ignored the miscarriages of justice imposed upon the Birmingham Six and others, lest they appear to be seen as associating themselves to closely with a cause which at the time was uniting nationalism/republicanism behind it. This is the same RTÉ who’s journalist Kevin O’Kelly was first fired, then jailed, for disobeying Section 31, when he broadcasted an audio recording of IRA Chief of Staff, Sean Mac Stiofain, without identifying that this was who’s voice it was on the tape. This is the same RTÉ which, as of 1973, came under the responsibilty of Conor Cruise O’Brien, a man synonymous with his hatred of Sinn Féin, the IRA, republicanism in general, and his deeply partitionost beliefs. A man who, in 1973, installed an entirely new RTÉ authority staff, and implemembted a regime under which it was later noted that those who didn’t toe the anti-Republican and partitionist line, with full obedience of section 31, were ‘sent to agriculture, religious or childrens broadcasting departmemts’. Honestly Dermot, that is a simply astonishingly illinformed remark which just beggars belief.

Incredibly factual tír Eoghain.

http://www.rte.ie/archives/2015/0402/691546-rare-chance-to-see-rte-drama-insurrection/

Enda a United Ireland is inevitable

Sen James Heffernan – once a Shinner always a Shinner !

Definitely worth reading through:

http://trinitynews.ie/1916-still-poses-a-dilemma-for-the-government-parties-and-fianna-fail/

“……Perhaps during freshers’ week you snapped a selfie with the hijacked Shinner at the Young Fine Gael stand. A cardboard cutout of a former IRA director of intelligence: the architect of the killings of at least 70 suspected British intelligence officers in Dublin; the creator of a ruthless IRA assassination unit, “The Squad”; the man who masterminded the IRA’s finances for three years, funnelling about $6 million into its coffers, and the man who said of suspected spies and agents, “[b]y their destruction the very air is made sweeter. For myself, my conscience is clear.” Young Fine Gael proudly present the one, the only, the highly respectable Mr Michael Collins, Sinn Féin TD for Armagh (that’s probably foreign country to Fine Gael), 1921-22.

This coming year, the words of Connolly are especially apt. “Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when living.” ”

1916 was good,The War of Idependence was good,Nelson Mandela and the ANC was good…..but actually, what happened up there, was All bad -It can’t be one way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Qb3iRb4I0

Lets not forget that 1916 also saw the Battle of the Somme, I wonder how the series will portray that.

Yes mcgoo/Thomas/Dane/patjoejoe/Diarmuid/Man of Ireland……they will bring all their account to bear on this!

‘Haunt every article’ you brought it up.

1916 celebrations for all the citizens of this Ancient proud Island called Ireland, (if the want)
have you got a problem with that?

@ Ciaran

the human sewage also known as the IRA will sing songs in 2016

@Ciaran Sinn Féin organise annual Rising Commemorations in each and every county, each and every year. If it appears to you that Sinn Féin are the only ones who link themselves to the Rising, it’s probably down to the fact that Sinn Féin commemorate it each and every year, not just every few decades on just one side of the border and done just for the tv cameras, like the brave patriots of FF/FG. “There’s panic down in Leinster House, where words are seldom scarce; “Send someone to glasnevin quick to remember Padraig Pearse!”". Apt lyrics of a song which sum up the self-serving nature of FG/FF’s borrowed pride in the Rising leaders, and the fact that it would not surprise if the most of them belived Pearse were buried in Glasnevin rather than Arbour Hill.

@ Stephen Duffy

its not enough to enable murder abroad, we have to celebrate murder at home