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Was the Easter Rising justified?

Published in Hedge School Recordings

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As part of the RTÉ ‘The Road to the Rising’ Event, Gresham Hotel, 3.30pm Monday 6 April 2015

History Ireland Hedge School —Was the Easter Rising justified?

Panellists: Ronan Fanning, Felix Larkin, John Borgonovo, Padraig Yeates with Tommy Graham in the chair.

On this Day

1871 John Millington Synge, key figure in the Irish Literary Revival, co-founder of the Abbey Theatre and playwright, notably of The Playboy of the Western World, born in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin.
1947 The expression ‘Cold War’, a war waged through proxies, was coined by the US statesman and millionaire financier Bernard Baruch.
1917 After twelve years in exile, the leading Russian Bolshevik, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (47), arrived in St Petersburg after a week-long journey from Zurich in a sealed train.
1862 Sir Thomas Wyse, politician and diplomat and major player in the struggle for Catholic Emancipation, died in Athens.
1660 Sir Hans Sloane, physician and collector, whose natural history collection formed the foundation of the British Museum, was born at Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down.