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The rebellion kicked off in Rebellion last night but some (even Gerry Adams) weren't happy

Episode two showed a Dublin in chaos.

*SPOILER ALERT*

This article contains detailed descriptions of what happened in the Easter Rising.

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IT ALL KICKED off in last night’s second episode of RTÉ’s Easter Rising drama Rebellion.

By ‘it’, we are of course talking about the rebellion itself with the rebels turning Dublin into a city of chaos and confusion.

What can you do for your country? Well, Elizabeth (Charlie Murphy) made a pretty big sacrifice by sacking off her Easter Monday wedding to instead go and fight for the republic.

She joined a rather raggle-taggle band of volunteers who marched up to the gates of Dublin Castle and demanded to be let in. When the constabulary man repeatedly refused, he was shot.

Much to the displeasure of some of her comrades, Elizabeth chose to treat the dying policeman rather than fight.

After the rebels begin to get routed by the British troops, Elizabeth heads for a retreat led by Jimmy (Brian Gleeson). It seems they hadn’t signed up for the glorious martyrdom being espoused by their superiors.

They nearly got it though after bumping into Jimmy’s brother, the British soldier fresh back from the fields of France. Fortunately, he lets them live.

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Across the Liffey, Padraig Pearse (Marcus Lamb) and James Connolly (Brian McCardie) were busy directing the volunteers around the at the GPO, getting ready to read out their newly printed proclamation.

It appears, however, that Pearse’s socialist republic doesn’t exactly extend to parity among the sexes, with Frances (Ruth Bradley) ordered down to “the kitchen or the medical” with the rest of the Cumann na mBan volunteers.

The reaction to this portrayal wasn’t to everybody’s liking.

Frances later dons a Paddy cap and hides her long hair to look like one of the fellas and keep fighting. She even appears to be a more committed rebel than most, threatening to shoot Dublin citizens who are looting.

“We need to show them we’re serious,” she ominously states.

Meanwhile, May (Sarah Greene) is still sleeping with the enemy and some afternoon delight with her aristocratic lover meant the pair missed the start of the rising.

The worst part is that they then have to do a walk of shame through a Dublin convulsed by insurrection and rumours of German invasion.

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And if you thought that was an inconvenience, it turns out she’s also pregnant. Mother of divine jaysus.

So, being the good adulterous English gentleman that he is, Charles (Tom Turner) sends her out to his Dalkey country house for safety. The bad news? His wife is out there having returned early from a trip. Awkward.

So that’s two episodes of five down. After last week’s cautious welcome to RTÉ’s €6 million production, there were a few more people online giving out after this latest episode.

Many were choosing to take issue with historical accuracy of this self-proclaimed fictional programme.

Irishmen and Irishwomen, you can never please them.

Read: Why were the 1916 leaders cast as background characters in Rebellion? The drama’s writer explains >

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:29 AM

    The script in this production is just awful, nothing more or less – awful

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:18 PM

    the provos come across very bad shooting the unarmed officer, the pro-brits come across very good letting two unarmed provos pass them by -this a BBC or RTE production

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    Mute Paul Ó Duḃṫaiġ
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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:58 PM

    Provos? Dude it isn’t set in December 1969 ffs

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    Jan 11th 2016, 1:27 PM
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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:47 PM

    Did people really dress like Boygeorge back then?

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    Jan 12th 2016, 7:42 AM

    The acting is terrible, the dress is awful, the story lines atrocious and there is absolutely nothing in the characters for us to even like a little. RTE should be ashamed. The dialogue is laughable, the script unbelievable.

    We’re meant to believe they shot the cop at the gate of Dublin Castle even though he was unarmed and the gate was open the whole time – what kind of rubbish is that? Then we’re meant to believe the rebels murdered an unarmed woman in a Dublin slum for looting – more rubbish. And what colour are the uniforms of the rebels? They look like those of leprechauns, nothing like the displays in Kilmainham Jail. Did Pearse really stand outside the GPO with half dozen lads and proclaim the Republic with onlookers saying, “This is shite – let’s go home”? Didn’t anyone take it seriously? Even the taximan couldn’t give a toss. And the volunteers just walking round the city in a uniform with a gun over his shoulder and the Brits not uttering a word.

    And what’s with the sex scene? We know yer man is banging yer wan – do they need to show it? Who cares if an Irish girl got pregnant for an Englishman – is it meant to endear us to the couple? Is it meant to split our loyalty or make us think love trumps all?

    It seems like the whole cast of Love/Hate turned up at the wrong set and said “fck it – let’s give this a go today” and proceeded to make a balls of it. RTE – you should have called it a day after Bosco

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:37 AM

    Just can’t take many of the actors seriously… its like a school play in parts.

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    Jan 12th 2016, 8:10 AM

    The makers will say they didn’t wish to be a historic version (or it seems even accurate one) – but this is an absolute critical event in Irish history. To re-write this part of crises point Irish history in a clear wrong way, is just indefensible.

    Children growing up someday will watch this version that thing “What they see, must be true if thats the way they made it!”. Its a bit like reading the Fine Gael daily newsletter (Irish Independent) and meekly accepting that all it says must be true. The truth is that all they see and read by twisted versions, is doing no one any long term favors.

    The least the makers of this programme could have done was record to camera facts that were known and detailed. Not lie and make up some crap that falsely portrays real people. Tell the truth about the facts. Sure, add a bit of story telling surrounding it – but still with whats known also.

    I’m deeply disappointed in this production and its wandering way off course.

    This programme should now come first with a warning: “This series does not represent actual events as they happened. We have let our imagination run wild!”

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:05 AM

    Sure wasn’t Julia Roberts involved in the rising too.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:41 PM

    I believe she smuggled two heavy machine guns to Dublin, crossways in her gob.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:42 AM

    Was truly awful. Watched first two and wont be watching any more. The Rising saw a small group of people go out and take on the might of the British Empire and the true story provides for great drama, why then introduce weak fictional characters into the story? Its a massive fail for RTE.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:52 AM

    Maybe it’s about the society and its reaction to the rising and not just a hagiography of the rebels themselves. In a couple of weeks the leaders might be dead and you’ll get to see the city’s response. That wouldn’t work if it was all just speeches and posturing from the start. I like the Trinity prods – they seem real enough – especially the woman who’s just arrived and just doesn’t get it. Not like the “what this place need is some Belfast efficiency – BOOM” anachronistic carbomb bollocks in Michael Collins

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:03 AM

    I would say that most Dublin people at that time regarded themselves as British, they couldn’t see what the anti British feeling was about. Shooting unarmed policemen was regarded then as cowardly just the same as it would be regarded cowardly today.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:20 AM

    Ah sure, they were brave back then, running up and shooting unarmed policemen in the back of the head, then disappearing into the crowd. So so brave.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 1:21 PM

    They probably under reported the number of people who were in the GPO that day too.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:40 AM

    It’s was poor last nite in fairness, half the episode taken up by the Hore of an Englishman

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:37 AM

    Haven’t watched it. No interested it watching our history being rewritten and revisionised by RTÉ.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:57 AM

    Irony of ironies.. a hard SF supporter complaining about historical revisionism (or is that revisionisedism?)

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:16 AM

    It’s a bit rich of people here wading into a discussion when they haven’t even seen the programme.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:23 AM

    @HOTbank, Ain’t that the truth?

    “Look it’s all good, just don’t show how murderous they actually were”

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:32 AM

    Didnt enjoy last nights episode at all

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:11 AM

    If people actually read and watched some of the background interviews about this drama, they would know that the makers didn’t set out to repeat and rehash the story of the seven signatories and keep the cameras focused on the GPO for five episodes. Instead, they chose to look at the rebellion from the point of view of the ordinary volunteers and the people of Dublin, whatever their religion. We cam see those living in slums out scavenging for food and clothes as looting breaks out, families torn as one brother fought another, confusion all over the city as rumours abounded of a German invasion etc. It actually is fairly accurate. And try to remember that the rising lasted a week, the series is still only at Easter Sunday. As for those of you wanting sexy swagger and heroes galore, it didn’t happen. The rising was a long, energy sapping week that messed with the heads of those volunteers that took part as death raged all around. Don’t judge it until it’s over.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:42 AM

    They wasted 6 million of the tax payers money on a basically a rom com. They should have given John Bruton a role running around with a Union Jack, dressed a woman of course but also as a transvestite, bisexual , gay, lesbian, straight man woman , just in case they offended someone by leaving them out.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:53 AM

    I think there’s a good bit of truth to your point about representing the Rising from the ground up, the confusion, the looting etc. I actually think that, and the shots of Dublin itself, were done pretty well.

    The problem is that some of what was in last night’s show was simply wrong.

    To take one example, in the show Seán Connolly shoots an unarmed RIC constable standing before him, no threat to anyone, because he wouldn’t open the gates to Dublin Castle (moments late, gate appears to have been open all along). There is no attempt to take him prisoner or to push him aside without killing him.

    In reality, the gates to Dublin Castle were wide open when the volunteers arrived. Constable James O’Brien, very bravely, tried to close the gates on the volunteers to prevent them entering Dublin Castle and attempted to grab for Seán Connolly, who then shot him.

    One of those depictions of what happened reflects far worse on the actions of the rebels than the other. It is also inaccurate, but it’s the one that was chosen.

    There were a number of other incidents or people left out, a depiction of Dr Kathleen Lynn that is baffling to anyone who has read about her, a caricature of Pearse taken from the mind of Kevin Myers, an omission of the fighting that took place at the GPO on the Monday (presumably because it showed a rebel success, however short-lived) and a number of other problems.

    Generally, a series of choices were made about how to depict the Rising in the second episode that were often historically inaccurate and in every case reflected a negative representation of the republican side. I was really disappointed at both the historical accuracy of it and the politics it seems to be pushing.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:36 PM

    Very well put, Justin.

    Hoping to be proven wrong, I had guessed it would only be a matter of time before RTÉ would show their true colours.

    Joyce used to describe Ireland as the ‘sow that ate its own farrow’ – I say he was wrong, the Irish state is the farrow that eats its own sow.

    What purpose to a supposed ‘national’ broadcaster if it is embarrassed at its own birthright?

    I see little purpose to a tv channel that overwhelmingly simply relays foreign made programming available on the other channels. Maybe there was a need before satellite and Internet – but not now.

    What say, sell off RTÉ as a brand for €500 million, use the 32 acres in Donnybrook for mixed social and affordable housing – and release citizens from the burden of paying the €160 p.a. tv tax?

    Now there’s a poll I think many would welcome – if the good people of TheJournal could run one?

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    Jan 12th 2016, 7:48 AM

    Totally agree with Justin here – even though the writers have stated that the show is not intended as a historical documentary and more a drama involving Dublin citizens on the periphery it is no excuse to be completely wrong on key parts such as the shooting of the cop on the WIDE OPEN gate of Dublin castle. The cop even tells the rebel the gate is open, all they had to do was brush past him end of story but in reality the eejit cop tried to lock the gate before getting a bullet to the head without any dialogue.

    No excuse for laziness or horrible inaccuracies from West Brits pushing a Westminister agenda.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:45 AM

    Gerry would be more of a “making a murderer” man I’d say.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:12 AM

    Gerry “shudda” stayed in school a little longer

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:57 AM

    Well Dara it was the Brits who have plenty of practice with that, the Birmingham 6 and Guildford 4 come to mind.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:08 AM

    Gerry would have probably been more of a fan of Lenin than Padraig Pearse if the truth was known.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:54 PM

    Yeah, all the heroes of the Republic are out on the cyber barricades with their digital balaclavas as they anonymously put the boot in to someone who (for good or ill) actually put his ass on the line for the republic he believed in…Smug wee Free State gobsheens

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:16 AM

    Downtown Abbey Street

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:16 AM

    Pearse never wanted or advocated a “socialist republic” so whoever wrote this article must be either lazy or stupid. High level journalism again….

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:49 AM

    This link’s great if you want to read Pearse’s collected works.

    https://archive.org/details/collectedworksof00pearuoft

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    Jan 11th 2016, 3:44 PM

    Cheers, will do

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    Jan 11th 2016, 6:26 PM

    I think it was written by Hugh O ‘Connell. Lol

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:31 AM

    With TV stuff one should never let the truth get in the way of a good story !
    Up the Republic
    Erin Go Bragh

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:50 AM

    Ep 1 set it up well for last night but by Jesus it fell flat on its face. Poor characters, even poorer script & no boobies. Only positive is it cannot get any worse.

    Can it?

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:08 AM

    We’ll it was not so bad It tries to look at things thought eyes of ordinary people like Sean O’Casey did Still all the characters call it the SF rising Actually was the IRB and Citizen army rising

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:09 AM

    It was still poor.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:48 AM

    . At the time the media deemed it (incorrectly) as the Sinn Fein Rising, hence the characters referring to the rebels as Sinn Fein

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:20 AM

    What a lot of cr,p it was like kids playing Cowboys and Indians dreadful

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:45 PM

    Pearse’s socialist republic? Whoever wrote this article needs a lesson in Irish history. Connolly and the ICA were the ones in favour of a socialist republic, the Volunteers who were a completely separate organisation were Nationalists and just wanted an independent Gaelic nation.

    As for Rebellion, revisionism in healthy doses is fine but this show is trying to hard to give a different take on 1916. End of the day though its a fictional drama so maybe we shouldn’t expect any historical accuracies from it?

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:27 AM

    Absolutely biggest pile of crap last night it completely fell on its face , no Collins no devalera? Typical RTE making up their own ideas,

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:13 AM

    Obviously Marian, where do you see Collins or Dev’s name on the Proclamation.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 1:10 PM

    Tbh DeV didn’t really play any important part in rising, he hid in the bakery. It was men under his command though over on Mount Street who did some serious damage. The Sherwood Forestor’s suffered circa 240 causalties in the “Battle of Mount Street Bridge”, given how close Boland’s bakery was to action it’s interesting that DeV didn’t bother sending any help.

    As for Collins, well what role do you expect? he was Plunkett’s aide de camp, other than been in GPO with Plunkett and other signatories he didn’t have much of a role tbh.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 4:51 PM

    What I meant was Collins was involved in taking of the gpo no? How come he wasn’t mentioned

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:51 AM

    It’s a bit much watching the same actors being doled out for each new RTE series. Love/Hate, Charlie and now Rebellion.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:38 PM

    i agree with gerry on this one. its a rewriting of history…………

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:34 AM

    “Whoever wrote Rebellion shudda read Pearse’s writings”

    Why is anyone expecting this thing to be historically accurate? It’s fiction. It sounds more like a romcom than anything else.

    “Fictional lead characters aren’t a patch on the real men and women of 1916″ Of course not – they’re actors acting out a script. Jeez!

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:25 AM

    Reading Pearse’s writing is similar to flicking through the inlay of a Michael Jackson album.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 10:46 AM

    Rebellion is not an apt description of the events of 1916. It was not a rebellion it was more of an insurrection. And Insurrection was the name chosen for the drama depicted on our television screens by RTÉ in 1966.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:42 PM

    If it was described as , `an Insurrection`in 1966, then a `Rebellion`in 2016 will it be a `Revolution` by 2066 ?

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:58 PM

    Patrick, my point exactly.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:57 PM

    It was always and should always be ” the Rising”

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    Jan 11th 2016, 1:00 PM

    A production involving Irish republicanism and Stephen Rea nowhere to be seen. What’s the world coming to?

    (Except that he’s playing a Russian prince over on BBC instead :D )

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:31 PM

    1916 is the sole property of Sinn Fein and anybody planning any events or even mentioning it, need the written permission of Sinn Fein..

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:28 PM

    Downton Abbey + Dads Army = Rebellion

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:22 PM

    May is a fine bit of stuff, just saying like.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 1:30 PM

    All the tv critics have given it a good review. I find it boring. A lot of the character actors sound terriibly amateurish. I would give it 3/10. It’s up there with Clean Break another classic from the RTE stable.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 6:14 PM

    Think we should celebrate not just the rising and it’s context this year but all our resistance hero’s who fought throughout Ireland for freedom from a savage foreign occupation from Wolfe tone to Robert emmet to the War of independence. Every man and woman who fought for freedom. It might be fitting to also should invite some French and Spanish representatives as a small number died lending aid to the cause.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:29 PM

    Gerry Adams said : “Whoever wrote Rebellion shudda read Pearse’s writings.”

    Which Poem / Writings would Gerry Adams have us read ?

    LITTLE LAD OF THE TRICKS

    by Padraig Pearse.

    Little lad of the tricks,
    Full well I know
    That you have been in mischief:
    Confess your fault truly.

    I forgive you, child
    Of the soft red mouth:
    I will not condemn anyone
    For a sin not understood.

    Raise your comely head
    Till I kiss your mouth:
    If either of us is the better of that
    I am the better of it.

    There is a fragrance in your kiss
    That I have not found yet
    In the kisses of women
    Or in the honey of their bodies.

    Lad of the grey eyes,
    That flush in thy cheek
    Would be white with dread of me
    Could you read my secrets.

    He who has my secrets
    Is not fit to touch you:
    Is not that a pitiful thing,
    Little lad of the tricks ?

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    Jan 11th 2016, 2:43 PM

    Is it 2017 yet?

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    Jan 11th 2016, 8:26 PM

    First episode ok, 2nd total rubbish. Like watching slow motion.

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    Jan 11th 2016, 6:21 PM

    Unbelievable rubbish. Nothing more than a bad costume drama

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    Jan 11th 2016, 8:41 PM

    Didn’t realise there where so many awkward social moments in the 1916 rising. The slums of Dublin look nice. No one with TB everyone looks well feed. Great unionist propaganda

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    Jan 11th 2016, 11:00 AM

    What’s this about, now?

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    Jan 12th 2016, 8:04 AM

    The makers will say they didn’t wish to be a historic version (or it seems even accurate one) – but this is an absolute critical event in Irish history. To re-write this part of crises point Irish history in a clear wrong way, is just indefensible.

    Children growing up someday will watch this version that thing “What they see, must be true if thats the way they made it!”. Its a bit like reading the Fine Gael daily newsletter (Irish Independent) and meekly accepting that all it says must be true. The truth is that all they see and rwad by twisted versions, is doing no one any long term favors.

    The least the makers of this programme could have done was record to camera facts that were known and detailed. Not lie and make up some crap that falsely portrays real people. Tell the trust about the facts. Sure, add a bit of story telling surrounding it – but still with thats known also.

    I’m deeply disappointed in this production and its wandering way off course.

    This programme should now come first with a warning: “This series does not represent actual events as they happened. We have let our imagination run wild!”

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    Jan 11th 2016, 12:28 PM

    Living abroad…anyway to see it outside of Ireland?

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    Jan 11th 2016, 1:11 PM

    @Timmy Culligan I wouldn’t bother. Better of reading “When the Clock Struck in 1916″ for realistic account of event that took place during Easter week 1916.
    http://www.collinspress.ie/when-the-clock-struck-in-1916.html

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    Jan 11th 2016, 7:39 PM

    @AJ, thanks for the tip

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    Jan 11th 2016, 6:52 PM

    Adams has an f***ING opinion on everything superseded he hasn’t yet claimed he was in gpo

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:17 PM

    I hear you’re a socialist now Padraig?
    Ah here!!!

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    Jan 11th 2016, 9:42 PM

    The series is FICTION,,,it just happens to take place with a backdrop of 1916. The cast were interviewed and they said it was supposed to be the stories of the three leading females…..it is not supposed to be a minute by minute account of the 1916 Rising!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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