no its not. I have never seen a happier comemoration of 1916. Its so amazing a hundred years later and they still can't show us just plain respect. you would swear that all the violence in Ireland really had nothing to do with Britain that they were somehow they were dragged into it.

This is so twisted to make it seem the Irish people look down on or regret the rising Oh My God! Talk about taking selective quotes from Yeats!

no mention of the fact britain invaded ireland and subjugated the people for centuries. millions dead, language near destroyed, country partitioned. but ofcourse we are violent for rebelling, also irish people fought in ww1 under the understanding, as britain had promised, that we would gain home rule.

THERES NO DIVIDE. 1916 WAS A MONUMENTAL EVENT IN THE CREATION OF IRELAND AND ALL ARE PROUD OF IT

good god, even as an american I find the british account of this event mystifying.

I'm am English brought up in West Cork and even I feel very strongly about this. You learn it in History class in Ireland but in England there's no talk of it. Not enough anyway. I did some secondary school in England too and you hear nothing about it. The Irish are wonderful people and I was blessed to have been sharing the same land. They don't deserve the brutality they receive.

This is painfully misleading

Thank god for these heroic men and women.This is the foundation of our beautiful country 🇮🇪🍀 R.I.P all Irish Rebel's who did for the cause of Irish freedom.

Gosh the English can never move on. It is like getting a divorce and your man never buggers off.

It's long past time that Ireland went back to the Irish. We have done enough damage their

For the record most(not all)Irish in the Somme didn't fight for Britian they fought to feed thier family, respect to them & to the rebels who fought to give thier children a future where they weren't treated like animals

for feck sake im so sick of hearing unionists say "they didnt have the support of the public" as if that means anything when they did what they did they earned the support from the populace thats how all revolutions start with a hand full of people who fight to make a difference who inspire the rest of the populace. im detest the idea that the british think they can make us feel bad about are victory's considering the crap they did in upholding the union they seriously have no led to stand on

1916 creating divisions. So Carson importing arms and people signing the covenant with blood. Or in 1915 when my great grandmother and her parents were burnt out their hometown of Swatragh, Derry in 1915 by loyalists .

This made it sound like Irish people have some regret over gaining independence. You''d be hard pressed to find any Irish person who thinks that. Do we regret we had to do it through bloodshed? Sure, but that wasn't our fault. That lies with the British who wouldn't give us our independence.

This narrative made me laugh, the Irish has never "turned the lens on itself" in the manner the speaker means. The Irish have always been proud and grateful for the Easter rising, a partitioned Ireland but one with a significant Republic was the best case scenario available, and violence was a means to an end. The only change in outward sentiment was due to sensitivities to other communities due to troubled relationships and not wishing to stoke them further. It might sound like a strange approach to the British, but there are some cultures who have the ability to refrain from triumphalism in order to achieve reconciliation. If you want to have full forensics on this then you could state that the British should have just left the island altogether!

Our heros in arms, long live their souls in gods heart

The heros of1916 will never be forgotten. The people of Ireland owe them so much. Erin divided will never be at peace...

Seizing the General Post Office means the same to the Irish as Concord Bridge means to us Americans

I'm a proud Englishman but my great nan was from Kerry so I have a balanced point of view on this and this is just spin. To make the Irish look bad

This is quite biased and misinformed. The separate Ulster identity had already crystallised before 1916 and the Irishmen who fought in WW1 came home to their fellow British army soldiers who they had fought alongside committing atrocities against their people. Ireland tried for almost the entire 19th century to break away and gain equal opportunity and freedom through constitutional means and we're met with putrefied, vicious racial attitudes by both British politicians and the press alike. England never cared for the fate of the Irish people, and failed to respect its separate culture and history. I hold no ill will for these failures , but Irish people had to assert their right to control of their own destinies and violence, despite all of its negative consequences was the only way to do so. The 20th century was the era of the bomb and rifle in Irish politics, we owe it to all victims on both sides to make sure that the 21st century is an era of prosperity so we can look back on all these events as unfortunate but somewhat necessary events on the road to stable long term peace and equality. I respect the British and all that they have contributed positively to the world, but there were undoubtedly were errors in British rule in Ireland, some out of sheer malice and hatred, some out of naivety, in their control of Ireland. Do not let blind nationalism and tribalism cloud your judgement.

RIP TO IRELANDS BRAVEST MEN

Today 24th April…the 105th Anniversary of the Easter Rising!…All honour to the Irish Republican Brotherhood, The Irish Citizen Army, The Irish Volunteers, The Women of Cumann na mBan and the boys of Na Fianna Eireann. May their Names and Courage never be forgotten.

We should remember both. It should be remembered a lot of Irish men joined the British army in the belief that if the Irish showed loyalty then we would get the home rule we'd been promised but that Ulster fought against. It's a complicated scenario we were never British and we'd never stop fighting for our own identity but we have ties with Britain that will probably never die either. That go beyond a simple oppressor situation.

That Unionist can just shut up. He's British so why doesn't he move to England.

But the REAL anniversary would be the 24th April ! The Easter Rising began on 24th April 1916.

We needed to get away from Britain, Catholics ( the vast majority of the country) were discriminated against, the Irish culture and language was dying, and then later after the rising the Brits brought in the black and tans which was the last straw for almost all Irish people against the rebels. And then bloody Sunday happened where almost a dozen innocents died from open fire by British forces in a horrendous revenge attack. We did spill blood, but not as much innocent blood as those British soldiers.

My irish great uncle took part in the Easter rising,the details are shrouded in mystery & its not often talked about,i often wonder if he was in the irish volunteers at the time x

"Who should we remember?" What sort of question is that? Both! They did what they did because they believed it best for them and their country. Both deserve memory and recognition, each in their own way.

MY IRELAND,THANK YOU

The BBC or any British media shouldn't be allowed to report on such a historic and important moment in the history if a country that they ruled over with a iron fist for so long

The British will always get an Irishman to say what they want to hear. That guy at 4:33 is a fine example. Does that guy know that the civilians who died were murdered by the British Army? They placed a gunboat called the Helga in the river Liffey and began shelling the homes of civilians, committing mass-murder to force the rebels to surrender for execution. "In order to prevent the further massacre of the citizens of Dublin by His Majesty's forces we the undersigned agree to an unconditional surrender" The British will be very pleased with Diarmuid Ferriter's contribution too. He's trying to imply that the 1916 rising caused the partition of Ireland. Diarmuid, the border was put here against the wishes of the Irish voters. He seems surprised that the War of Independence was violent. Was there ever a War of Independence anywhere that wasn't violent?. The British Empire took the lives of 150 million people and nobody ever got any concession of any kind from the British by peaceful means.

Can anyone tell me who the Unionist at 3:19 is? Would be helpful if the video showed names...

5:39 what is the name of the painting on the building?

It wasn't a bad idea as the BBC like to make out. The Irish won their freedom from the Imperialist British that under direct rule from London ignored the failing potato crops for years and still did nothing when 1 million Irish died in the famine.

To say that they did not receive support from other nationalists is simply not true, they did receive this support. The only reason that the numbers were so low was due to communication issues when Mac Neil told his troops ,in the country areas of Ireland, to stand down as whether or not the rising would take place was unsure. There was not enough time to issue another order so the rising took place anyway. Also due to the British and their resolution of execution quickly turned the entire country against the British government and in support of the Irish rebels.

What documentary is this??

As an Irish person living all their life in Dublin I find this very misleading. 1916 is probably the most uniting moment in Irish history and is revered still to this day. Why ask the opinion of a unionist on how 1916 is remembered? That’s like asking a person of Jewish faith how they feel towards Nazi Germany

6 years later David llyod George asked de valera for a cease fire and peace talks in the war of independence, all kicked off on easter monday 1916 , thoght this was the 7th national uprising against 800 years of english occupation

Sorry for this slightly trivial question, but are the 2 persons who are interviewed in the first part of the video Irish ? I'm French and I'm not really familiar with the accent, and I think it might be interesting to know...

C'Mon Ireland. Freedom

Not rag tag rebels you mean young educated brave men and women of Ireland

Very well put together footage over excellent music. That actress, I know her, but not her name, she was brilliant!

Only when Britain leaves the 32 Counties of Ireland to the People living on the Island of Ireland to Govern, can the old wounds be healed.

Have the British ever apologised for carrying out genocide during the Easter Rising?

A hundred years since the Dubs jeered the captured rebels as they were marched through Dublin, waving their little Union Jacks.

Respect

Helped to create divisions, read the Proclamation.. The division was there.. All brought from Britain through colonial theory.. The irony of a Unionist disrespecting the Provisional Government for rebelling that Easter week, when they were all set to rebel had home rule been enacted is astonishing!!

Britain double crossed Collins/Ireland on the border issue,as it was not what was agreed or aspired to and this has always been the British playbook. This playbook will come back to haunt them time and again until they facilitate a unified Ireland in the future.

Ireland for the Irish 2023❤🇮🇪☘️

The actress of Maarva from Andor(star wars) is great

The Royal navy had a Battleship shelling Dublin??? Never heard that before..

YUPPA the Irish can't wit till we become a united nation

Partition of Ireland was looking like a big likely by 1914.

A lot of information omitted, such as the fact James Connolly was tied to that chair. Such a loss

WHAT THE FUCK!? HEY BBC,HAVE YOU EVER MET AN IRISH PERSON?!

People were delighted when the rebels got caught.

Scottish freedom next! Our Irish brothers are an inspiration 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

at 3;16 BOTH.

Im not conflicted at all .... the birth of the Irish Republic is something worthy of celebration. A million dead at the Somme, not so much.

ordinary people lived in poverty over there I don't know what all this great place about Ireland is

Tragic

Anyone else here for school work?

HISTORICAL CONTEXT ?

Ireland’s Bunker Hill

The power of 'one'. No! .....why die in Flanders?

The bravest men in our history, may they rest in peace.

Only the Irish rugby team had the right idear

And the war continues

RIP brave men. Get out of Ireland Britain so we can be a united country again

TAL.😥

This is an embarrassingly inaccurate take

only three quarters left the english empire. what about the other quarter, our oldest province. ?? if they use the ballot instead of the bullet, we could very well be reunited. but ...... are we all ready for reunification? up goes the cost of living, as in germany when THEY were reunited.

I think this angle is accurate. The Irish civil war continues.

Ww1 ruined poppies

2:59 False

The I s & the T s have'nt been dotted & crossed. In conflict such is the signature of success. Reparations are the light @ the end of the tunnel!

there are some inaccuracies and unprovable statements made in this broadcast and while it says Ireland has to take a good luck at itself, it never says Britain has to be sorry for its imperialism.....funny that.

"1916 created the divisions we see today" Ehh no it didnt 🙄

BBC Newsnight Jeez' talk about biased, go way with ya.

That's my focus

delicately done. well done BBC

This is a skewed and disgraceful ant Irish account. What can one expect from the BBC?

The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB - forerunner of the IRA) was formed in response to the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1912. The importation of 30,000 firearms in the same year by the UVF at Larne showed the intentions of Unionists in opposing Home Rule. Bloody conflict was inevitable. The Proclamation advocates clearly the rights of all that live in this island, the gerrymandering and discrimination seen in the North of this island shows what they were revolting against.

This is so tone deaf as to be unreal.

"imperialistic venture" was world war one. Deal with it

All handed to the EU...

If Ireland hadn't gone at that time they could be in a similar position as the Scots today. Either go and apply to join the EU or stay ha ha

What isn't mentioned is that the `only' reason Irishmen joined the British army was for 2 reasons, one was because they feared Germany winning the war and Ireland under being German rule, hence the rebel slogan, "We Serve Neither King nor Kaiser". The other reason was because Britain promised Home Rule if Ireland helped them defeat Germany during WWI. The reason the 1916 Easter Rising happened was because the Brits reneged on that promise while 200,000 Irishmen who could have stayed at home and fought the British were killed in the trenches.

They grabbed most of ireland when UK was distracted by WWI, they are trying for Ulster whilst UK is distracted by Brexit, Boris will regret his betrayal.

My family had a farm in cavan my great granny and grandfather where brought up a alleyway to be shot by ira but in time black and tans shot them of course Never paid us for farm which I think is unfair cause other way round they'd cry there eyes out if we did its on there graves and lived happy after till forced to north with nothing!! But farming is in the blood and I think they deserve It back never no payment made??

It's actually fortunate that the Easter Rising wasn't successful, considering what most likely would have been done to the country had the Internationalists subverted the revolution and seized power. "Notable amongst the revolutionaries were Robert Briscoe, an IRA Captain and the first Jewish member of the Dail Eirann (the Irish Parliament) and Michael Noyk who worked closely with the revolutionary leader Michael Collins." "Fanny and Molly Goldberg joined the revolutionary Cumann na mBan (Women’s IRA) and did everything but shoot: hiding IRA soldiers, nursing and marching." "On the other side of the political divide was notably the leader of Belfast’s community Sir Otto Jaffe. The divide at times was between families and communities: often Jewish families straddled what would become the north-south divide. (On 21 January 1874, Otto's father, Daniel Joseph Jaffe died in Nice. Martin Jaffe [Otto's elder brother] secured a plot in the City Cemetery, which became the Jewish Cemetery. Daniel Jaffe was the first Jew to be interred there. -Wikipedia) jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/opinion-the-jewish-role-in-the-easter-rising/ “The revolution in Russia is a Jewish revolution” -The Maccabean (New York), Nov. 1905, p, 250 “Russian Jews have taken a prominent part in the Bolshevist movement” -The American Hebrew (New York), November 18, 1927, p. 20 “Karl Marx, who came from an old family of rabbis and brilliant Talmudic scholars, was to point the path of victory for the proletariat.” L. Rennap, Anti-Semitism and the Jewish Question (London, 1942), p. 31 “The communist soul is the soul of Judaism.” -Harry Waton, A Program for the Jews and an Answer to All Anti-Semites (New York: Committee for the Preservation of the Jews, 1939), p. 143 “Some call it Marxism - I call it Judaism.” -Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, in the American Bulletin of May 15, 1935 "The English (or French or American, etc.) patriotism of the Jew is only a fancy-dress which he puts on to please the people of the country." - The Jewish World, December 8, 1911. "The world revolution which we will experience will be exclusively our affair and will rest in our hands. This revolution will tighten the Jewish domination over all other people." - Le Peuple Juif, February 8, 1919. "The governments of the peoples included in this world republic, with the aid of the victorious proletariat, all will fall without difficulty into Jewish hands. Private property will then be strangled by the Jewish directors, who will administer the state patrimony everywhere. Thus the promise of the Talmud will be fulfilled, that is, the promise that the Jews, at the arrival of the Messiah, will possess the key to the wealth of all the peoples of the earth." - Baruch Levy, in a letter to Karl Marx, published in the Rothschild controlled La Revue de Paris, June 1, 1928. "There is much in the fact of Bolshevism (Communism) itself, in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism." - The Jewish Chronicle, April 4, 1919. "We Jews have spoiled the blood of all the races of Europe. Taken as a whole, everything is Jewdified. Our ideas animate everything. Our spirit reigns over the world. We are the Lords." - Dr. Kurt Munzer, The Way to Zion. "Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race." - Rabbi Stephen Wise, N.Y. Herald-Tribune, June 13, 1938. "We Jews, we are the destroyers and will remain the destroyers. Nothing you can do will meet our demands and needs. We will forever destroy because we want a world of our own." -- Maurice Samuel, 'You Gentiles'

The British view is totally usless and warped, home rule was never going to be given to the Irish, we had to do something to shown our dissatisfaction to be part of a neglegent tryranical empire that had let over a million die and forced a million more to leave our land during the great famine

Lots of Brit half truths in this

Propaganda

This is the most negative view of the Irish rebellion I’ve ever seen. I don’t look to the BBC for an unbiased report. Without the rebellion Ireland would still be a part of Britain and she would still be poverty stricken.

When Gerry Adams sings the praises of the Rising (and calls the Battle of the Somme an imperialist adventure) you have to call the Rising into question.

Guys stop arguing and just enjoy life. The past is the past. We can't change it so let's move on. Have fun, drink, shag and be merry. Yere

Guilty English propaganda, Jolly bad show what old chap?