Labour Historian Padraig Yeates talks about the role of the Irish Citizen Army in the Rising. Some of these people, Fearghal says, refused to take part in the Rising, others felt they were honour bound to but were far from enthusiastic. This was not the only tendency within the separatist camp, however, we also talk about how another faction wanted the Volunteers used in a defensive manner, so that the British would be cast as the aggressors. The Citizen Army flag - the Starry Plough. Here John Dorney talks to Fearghal McGarry and Padraig Yeates about why the Volunteers and Citizen Army went to war on Easter Monday.Ĭlick on the Link below to listen to the interviewįirst Fearghal McGarry talks about the Volunteers and more particularly the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a faction of which really masterminded the Rising.įearghal talks about the growth of an insurrectionary tendency in the organisation under Tom Clarke and the extent to which this was fueled by a fear of national obliteration, that Ireland would become a, “compliant and even happy part of the UK”, like Scotland or Wales. In the first part of a series of audio features, we discuss aspects of the Easter Rising with historians.
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