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Éire agus an Cogadh Mór

Éirí Amach 1916 Image Name: Éirí Amach 1916 Description: Newspaper vendor after Easter Rising (1916) Copyright: RTÉ Stills Library
John Bhaba Jeaic Press1 Image Name: John Bhaba Jeaic Press1
Cormac Ó Comhraí Image Name: Cormac Ó Comhraí Description: Cormac Ó Comhraí
The Four Courts Bombardment Image Name: The Four Courts Bombardment Description: The Four Courts Bombardment (1922) Copyright: RTÉ Stills Library

Sa chlár seo, déanfaidh an staraí Cormac Ó Comhraí cur síos dúinn ar riocht na hÉireann tar éis an Éirí Amach agus le linn an Chéad Chogadh Domhanda.  Is é Cormac údar an leabhair Ireland and the First World War.  Déanfaidh John Bhaba Jeaic Ó Confhaola ó Ionad Oidhreachta Leitir Mealláin cur síos orthu siúd as Ceantar na nOileán a d’fhág an dúthaigh sin le troid i dtrinsí na Beilge agus na Fraince.  Cearbhall Ó Síocháin a chuirfidh an clár i láthair.

Historian Cormac Ó Comhraí, author of Ireland and the First World War, puts Ireland’s position in the aftermath of the Rising and the Great War into context in this programme today, while John Bhaba Jeaic Ó Confhaola of Ionad Oidhreachta Leitir Mealláin heritage centre sheds light on those from that part of Conamara who left to fight for the British army in the trenches of Belgium and France. Cearbhall Ó Síocháin presents.