The programme opens with the studio presenter Ray McAnally announcing that there has been a rising in Dublin. Reporters Maurie Taylor and Gerry Alexander describe the scene in Beresford Place where armed members of the Irish Citizen Army and the Irish Volunteers have gathered. James Connolly, Pádraic Pearse and Joseph Plunkett lead the last battalion at Dublin Castle. Reporter Jim Mooney witnesses the shooting of a policeman The rebels march into Sackville Street.
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