238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1)

To Empire with me, Anita Arland. And me. William Durumple. Now before we carry on with our Ireland series, and thank you so much for all of your very kind comments. It's it's wonderful when you pick a subject that really resonates with listeners, so we know this one is, so thank you for that. But let me tell you, for the next three episodes we've very lucky to have a a rather outstanding guest, a brilliant historian of Ireland. Dermed Ferretter is with us, author of so many great books on the history of Ireland, including uh a joint book with our previous guest,

Colton Tovin, who we really enjoyed, uh on the Famine, but two of his books are particularly relevant to the next few episodes. Between Two Hells, The Irish Civil War and A Nation Not a Rabbel, the Irish Revolution of Nineteen Thirteen. To nineteen twenty three. Welcome to you. Thank you so much for being with us. Absolute pleasure to be here. I think I've already impressed you so much by saying, Oh, lovely, lovely picture of Yates behind you. It's Beckett, you idiot. So, you know, we got off to a flying star. I have to admit I thought it was Trump at one point. I didn't Didn't voice it. Others are available. Um but we are largely going to be concentrating on the Easter rising on this episode. And right at the last episode, we left Calm talking and it was very emotional talking about the great famine. I have to say it was very glad not to have such a depressing subject this week. I find the the reading, particularly reading Dermot's books on the Easter rising and the and the Civil War gripping and and but I was so depressed by the uh the famine books. It was just such a bleak and terrible story. Well there is a contemporary historian who Carter has done an awful lot on the economic consequences of the famine, but he also spoke not

too long ago about the psychological consequences to this day, and the way he put it is part of us still does not want to go there. Which of course you will both appreciate after hearing the the the enormity. of its impact and and the way it reverberates down to the generations. So there's still a degree of reticence, I suppose About opening it up. So it's it's it's healthy to have done that. And would it be correct to say that all of those feelings, all of those emotions so much fresher? Then than today.

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