"When I was a child of ten, I went down on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my life to an effort to free my country. I have kept that promise."
I am listening to this and am shocked you only have 340 views. It is great work. Well done. As an Irishman well-read in Irish history I commend your sober account of the lead up to the Rising. I am only a third of the way in and there is one correction that I feel reluctantly bound to make: The school Patrick Pearse founded was called St. Enda's, not St. Edna's. The only other thing I have to add at the moment is that it is important to remember Irish society was very much a spectrum from those who were very anti-British, to those who very comfortable as part of the Empire. In the 1900s it was not a black and white issue of cruel British suppressing a whole nation of entirely rebellious Irish. Class mattered. (That was where things were headed though, as middle class loyalty shifted). Again, great work.
