Insurrection

- Season 1

(1966)

The programme opens with the television newsreader Maurice O'Doherty concluding a report on the Battle of Verdun before handing over to the studio presenter Ray McAnally for the week s special report. McAnally introduces reports on the sinking of the Aud, a notice in the day's newspapers cancelling the Irish Volunteer parades and an item on Sinn Féin. There is a report from Banna Strand where arms were found and a man arrested. McAnally interviews Sir Matthew Nathan, Under Secretary for Ireland, in studio who reveals that the man arrested was Sir Roger Casement. ...

The programme opens with the studio presenter Ray McAnally announcing that there has been a rising in Dublin. Reporters Maurie Taylor and Gerry Alexander describe the scene in Beresford Place where armed members of the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers have gathered. James Connolly, Pádraic Pearse and Joseph Plunkett lead the last battalion at Dublin Castle. Reporter Jim Mooney witnesses the shooting of a policeman The rebels march into Sackville Street.

The studio presenter, Ray McAnally, reports on events of the second day of the rising Using a large street map and a sequence of still images. McAnally describes how volunteers ambushed members of the Georgius Rex unit. Section commander Malone of the Irish Volunteers is interviewed about the incident. Noblett's sweet shop is ransacked by looters. Francis Sheehy-Skeffington tries to prevent the looting.

This programme opens with citizens reading a proclamation posted on a wall and troops from the Sherwood Foresters disembarking from a ship. In studio, presenter Ray McAnally reports on the warm welcome the British troops received and how the admiralty gunboat the Helga bombed Liberty Hall. At Trinity College, a porter tells a reporter what he has seen since Monday. A priest tends to the wounded on the roof of the GPO. In studio McAnally reports that an advanced party of the Sherwood Foresters has been attacked at Haddington Road. Action of soldiers coming under fire ...

It is the fourth day of the Rising and the studio presenter, Ray McAnally, announces the death by firing squad of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. Reporter Gerry Alexander interviews Captain Bowen Colthurst about the execution of Sheehy-Skeffington and two other journalists. In studio, Ray McAnally gives a report on conditions in the city. There is an interview with a business man, Jack O'Connor, at Howth golf course who is unable to get to his office because of the troubles. Maurie Taylor reports from inside the GPO where Lieutenant John Mahony, a British army medical ...

The programme opens with Ray McAnally announcing the arrival of General Sir John Maxwell - the Commander in Chief of the British forces in Ireland. Reporter Pat Nolan interviews General Maxwell at Dublin Castle. In studio Ray McAnally reports on the burning buildings and introduces a report from the GPO. At the GPO, James Connolly orders his bed to be moved to the firing line and dictates a dispatch to Miss Carney. Commandant Pearse pays tribute to the members of Cumann na mBan as they evacuate the GPO. Miss Carney refuses to leave. Maurie Taylor interviews Pearse. In...

The programme opens with Ray McAnally in studio reporting on the events of the fifth day of the Rising. He explains how the military are closing in on the rebels. McAnally gives reports from the other sites of action around the city. General Maxwell comments on the deaths of civilians. In a house in Moore Street, Sean McLaughlin Robert and the other leaders discuss possible ways of getting beyond the military cordon and consider the potential loss of life. On witnessing civilians being shot, Pearse expresses his sadness.

Ray McAnally reports from outside Kilmainham Gaol less than two weeks after the Easter Rising. Thirteen of the men who had been involved in the Rising have been executed and many others have been given jail sentences. James Connolly and Seán Amc Diarmada, the two remaining signatories of the Proclamation, are awaiting execution. At Dublin Castle James Connolly is visited by his wife Lily and his daughter Nora. Outside Kilmainham Gaol, Ray McAnally gives a summary of the destruction and loss of life as a result of the Rising.