The events of the Easter Rising, told in the style contemporary news broadcasts and a series of dramatic reconstructions.
Ray McAnally
Studio co-ordinator
Eoin Ó Súilleabháin
Patrick H. Pearse
Gerry Alexander
Reporter
Jim Norton
Tom Clarke
Ronnie Walsh
James Connolly
Declan Harvey
Joseph Mary Plunkett
Edward Byrne
Thomas McDonagh
Liam Devally
Éamonn Ceannt
Pádraig Ó Gaora
Seán Mac Diarmada
Gerry Sullivan
Michael Mallin
Willie Pearse
Conor Farrington
Sir Roger Casement
Eddie Golden
Eoin Mac Neill
Kevin Flood
Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (The O'Rahilly)
Joan O'Hara
Countess Constance Markievicz
Barry Cassin
Desmond FitzGerald
Brendan Matthews
Francis Sheehy - Skeffington
John O'Flynn
Thomas Ashe
Eddie Doyle
Richard Mulcahy
Joe Lynch
Cathal Brugha
Michael McAuliffe
Michael Collins
Michael Ryan
Michael Malone
Michael Murray
Lieutenant Mahony
Seán McCarthy
James Ryan
Mike Murphy
Volunteer Officer
Tom O'Rafferty
Volunteer
Donal McCann
John O'Shea
John McCarthy
Sheelagh Cullen
Elizabeth O'Farrell
Eithne Lydon
Winifred Carney
Sabina Coyne
Julia Grenan
John Welsh
James Stephens
Howard Marion-Crawford
General Sir John Maxwell
Michael Garvey
Director
Hugh Leonard
Writer
Louis Lentin
Producer
Nov 19, 1978
Dec 28, 2025
Apr 26, 2020
Aug 9, 1996
Feb 4, 2019
Sep 16, 2014
Invalid Date
Feb 2, 1970
Jul 17, 2019
Jan 3, 2016
Jun 24, 2014
Feb 17, 2019
Mar 27, 2023
Jan 25, 2014
Mar 24, 1979
Oct 11, 2018
RTÉ One
Ireland
English
