Roy Foster on the Easter Rising

29 April 2016

If you missed Hertford’s Professor Roy Foster on Fergal Keane’s Rising Voices (Archive on 4) last Saturday, it’s well worth catching up on.

It’s a fascinating programme about the Easter Rising of 1916, dealing with its roots in the Irish cultural revival, how it figured in culture in retrospect, and how its romanticisation was challenged by Sean O’Casey’s controversial The Plough and the Stars. It’s exciting listening.

Image (1916) from: Wikimedia Commons. 17 Nov 2017 image acquired from Archive.org scanned book source: https://archive.org/stream/peopleswarbookpi00fochuoft#page/n135/mode/1up/search/dublin but extracted from the individual page images in jp2 format
The People’s War Book and Pictorial Atlas of the World. USA & Canada, 1920, p. 132.