339. Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 

The Irish could never tell a story, they sing it, and the professor is brilliant at doing exactly that. I could listen all day.

Really good listen to a period in our History, that believe or not, is never taught in Schools... atleast here in the North. Many thx.

April 23 1916. Nearly a year to the day later of April 25 Anzac Day 1915 when a lot of Aussies of Irish descent landed at Gallipoli and started Australia`s greatest legendary story.

Can't wait till you do an episode on The Troubles. I've been doing a lot of watching and reading about it recently. Just read: "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe. Highly recommend it.

Connection between poetry and revolution, yes. Why did Plato want to expel poets from his city?

That was good!

It's fascinating how many of the nationalist leaders were Anglo-Irish. Markievicz being an example.

One of the great ironies of history: socialist Irish republicans fighting for their self-determination by acquiring aid from Imperial Germany, whose ongoing war aim was to permanently occupy Belgium and Northern France.

Please can we have something else besides the Ireland stuff soon? It’s great just want a bit of variation ❤

What these three episodes have show with the esteemed Professor, is that Irish History,as present by him,continually regurgitates four hundred,or more,years of suffering at the hands of the English/British. Indeed no people in history have suffered longer and more at the hands of an oppressor. Well a case might be made for the Children of Israel in Egypt. There is an irony. Why this constant victimhood and looking for revenge is important is that Ireland’s default position is anti British. Northern Ireland must cease to exist. It extends to their self congratulating view of themselves as the ultimate arbiter of any conflict or dispute between peoples to invite Hamas to join them on their high moral ground. No hint of self analysis on the past history of Irish Republicans siding with Hitler or Catholic anti Semitic treatment of Jews in their current hatred of Israel. Past wrongs have continually to be righted in Irish society at all levels so there is no place in politics, academia or the Law for the likes of me. A Protestant Irish Citizen.