239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2)

Welcome to Empire with me, Anita Armand William. D. We are once again joined by the just magnificent Demet Ferretter, author of Between Two Hells, The Irish Civil War, and A Nation Not a Rabble, The Irish Revolution, 1913 to 1923. You've had us absolutely spellbound with your account of what led up to And indeed the Easter rising. For those who might not have heard our last episode, and if you haven't, go back and listen to it. It's really well worth it, I promise you. But in summary, it was a time in nineteen sixteen when Irish nationalist organizations all come together to lead an insurrection calling for Irish independence from Britain. They take over key

building. I mean I say key buildings, one of them was a biscuit factory, uh which was somewhat baffling. Rebels had provisions anyway. Yeah, they've not cheese, they had the crackers, but they took over key buildings and they fought for six long days before being forced to surrender. What was the response of the people of Dublin and further afield to the East Arising. There were feelings of great betrayal. There are a group of women known as the separation women, whose husbands We're fighting. In the trenches.

On the Western front. in the first world war as Irish members of the British Army, they were very angry. They felt a great sense of betrayal that this had been a stab in the back. Um and of course news slowly began to filter through to those troops. There were also Dubliners who were hugely inconvenienced. In a very obvious way.

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