The Women Who Staged the Rising
Broadcaster and journalist Marie-Louise Muir examines the role of theatre in radicalising the Irish women who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Broadcaster and journalist, Marie-Louise Muir, examines the role theatre played in radicalising the Irish women who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising.
As she pieces together their largely forgotten stories through archives at Dublin's Abbey Theatre and visits key locations associated with the insurrection, Marie-Louise asks what happened to these women and their radical ideals.
Producer: Conor Garrett.
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