1916 - Seachtar na Casca. When does it start?

TheAverageMan · 10-09-2010 8:20am #1

I heard about a new series on TG4 or TV3 called 1916 Seachtar na Casca about the Easter Rising. I hear great things about it. My brother was an extra in it when it was filming in Galway last year. Anyone know when it starts? or any more info on it at all?

pinkypinky · 10-09-2010 8:49am

According to the Autumn schedule on their website, it starts on 22nd Sept at 9.30. In fact, there's lots on their schedule that looks v. interesting.

TheAverageMan · 10-09-2010 9:01am

Thanks pinkypinky.

do you know anything more about it? I know they were filming away last winter in and around Galway and up in Dublin as well.

Love history and about time the TV stations started doing some erally good stuff and not just X Factor type shows.

JerryHandbag · 10-09-2010 10:08am

Good to see this is on TG4 on not TV3.

TheAverageMan · 10-09-2010 10:33am

Totally agree. TG4 do great stuff, especially the documentaries.

Couldn't imagine seeing TV3 do something like this.

whiterebel · 10-09-2010 12:38pm

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Good to see this is on TG4 on not TV3.

If you can't vote off the leaders, or their isn't someone with a 20 pound tumour growing out of their head, TV3 won't show it.......

JerryHandbag · 11-09-2010 11:17pm

whiterebel wrote: »

If you can't vote off the leaders, or their isn't someone with a 20 pound tumour growing out of their head, TV3 won't show it.......

Pretty much nail on the head....TV3 don't seem one bit Irish to me.

Minstrel27 · 12-09-2010 11:46am

I am glad I heard about this. Refreshing to see television like this on Irish television.

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Pretty much nail on the head....TV3 don't seem one bit Irish to me.

Ireland AM is the pinnacle of Irish broadcasting. What about Xposé, all those camera sounds, it must be exciting.

TV3 should have their licence revoked. They offer nothing new.

enniscorthy · 12-09-2010 12:18pm

oh wonderful i cannot wait this will be a fabulous new series from tg4

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 12-09-2010 2:32pm

Silly question, but will it be in Irish?

Also is it a dramatic thing, or documentary? I have seen it on the ads for the new season on TG4 but I can't figure out much about it.

enniscorthy · 12-09-2010 7:55pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Silly question, but will it be in Irish?

Also is it a dramatic thing, or documentary? I have seen it on the ads for the new season on TG4 but I can't figure out much about it.

think its both mate......... also brendan gleeson is the narrator

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 12-09-2010 8:25pm

enniscorthy wrote: »

think its both mate......... also brendan gleeson is the narrator

I see, kind of like a docco with historical reinactments thrown in. Sounds good.

enniscorthy · 14-09-2010 10:33pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I see, kind of like a docco with historical reinactments thrown in. Sounds good.

defo

TheAverageMan · 15-09-2010 6:50pm

enniscorthy wrote: »

defo

I hear Brian Cowen launched this series today at Government buildings. Seems he not lying so low after all.

Rumour has it this is the best thing TG4 have ever done.

If so it's gonna be great.

And yes Brendan Gleeson does narrate it.

Subtitles for all us who never realised the value of Irish at school.....regreting it now.

Roll on wed 22nd

squeakyduck · 22-09-2010 2:16pm

A friend of mine was in the ad for it holding a gun preparing to shoot. It was really cool, but I can't find it on the internet unfortunately

Looks like a good series!

Minstrel27 · 22-09-2010 2:25pm

Anocht, anocht.

enniscorthy · 22-09-2010 10:12pm

wonderful

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 22-09-2010 11:15pm

Quite enjoyed that.

Does TG4 get recognised for it's shows ever? Like at TV awards and that.

ollaetta · 23-09-2010 5:35pm

When it started with actors doing the scene in the GPO I thought it was going to be cack but it turned out to be a very good documentary. The historians interviewed really knew their stuff and it bodes well for the rest of the series.

Have to say, some of the best stuff on TV is on TG4.

high heels · 23-09-2010 6:21pm

Anyone torrent it? Or does TG4 have a iplayer?

A friend worked on the costumes so really want to see it..

Ciaran_B · 23-09-2010 6:36pm

high heels wrote: »

Anyone torrent it? Or does TG4 have a iplayer?

They sure do. Part 1.

I thought it was fantastic and I'm looking forward to the next 6.

DeepBlue · 23-09-2010 8:00pm

It's also repeated on Saturday at 9.30 p.m.

TheAverageMan · 25-09-2010 12:41pm

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Quite enjoyed that.

Does TG4 get recognised for it's shows ever? Like at TV awards and that.

They sure do. The same company (Abú Media) who made 1916 Seachtar na Cásca won the Best FActual Series for The Road to the White House at last years Celtic Media Awards. And their 2 series of Mobs America were IFTA nominated but I dont think they won either time.

I expect this will win plenty awards thought, and rightly so....

TheAverageMan · 27-09-2010 12:35pm

Did anyone see the review in the Sunday Business Post?

Does the reviewer suggest no-one n 1916 had a beard? Surely there is some mistake......lol

I am sure Roger Casement for one had a beard.........and i don't actually remember who in the series was sporting a big fuzzy beard!

Must look at it again and see what got his back up!

ANyway, great show.....James Connolly this week. Can't wait.

baldbear · 29-09-2010 9:34pm

I Enjoyed the James Connolly episode tonight. I thought they would of maybe showed the house in Moore st. where they signed the surrender note. (Is the building to be knocked for a bloody shopping area?)

The footage of his daughter was interesting. It should be shown to all kids doing history.

Tchaikovsky · 29-09-2010 9:46pm

"Where oh where is our James Connolly?"
I think all Irish people should watch this series; I mean, they even have Brendan Gleeson narrating! Legends.

Irish-trucker · 29-09-2010 9:46pm

Tonights episode was the first I've seen , Very impressive - top notch programme.
Just about to watch the first about Tom Clarke now.

The ending of it tonight was excellent , It sort of pissed me off what was said at the end .
Its a truly different Ireland today that the one they died for

Connolly would turn in his grave if he knew of knew of the goings on .

Well done TG4 anyway - Do they get any of the tv license money ?
Mobs Mheiricá was another class programme they had on .

enniscorthy · 01-10-2010 12:44pm

well done to all involved another great show this week on the man from edinburgh the heroic james connolly

limited episode series are definately the future of tv

TheAverageMan · 01-10-2010 3:05pm

Can you just imagine what Connolly would do with the Anglo and AIB bankers.

Do we need that kind of reaction now?

Or do we stand idly by and watch as it all flitters away?

TheAverageMan · 16-10-2010 7:23pm

Did anyone else see the excellent episode this week on McDonagh?

What a series, it just gets better and better.

Can't wait to see Sean McDiarmada next week. He along with Clarke was the main driver behind the rising.

Dying to see how a young man with polio could have such an influence in an Ireland of the time. Personally, i would have thought people would have had a prejudice against a cripple in a situation like that.

I am looking forward to seeing how he was so powerful.

JohnFalstaff · 16-10-2010 10:03pm

TheAverageMan wrote: »

Did anyone else see the excellent episode this week on McDonagh?

What a series, it just gets better and better.

Can't wait to see Sean McDiarmada next week. He along with Clarke was the main driver behind the rising.

Dying to see how a young man with polio could have such an influence in an Ireland of the time. Personally, i would have thought people would have had a prejudice against a cripple in a situation like that.

I am looking forward to seeing how he was so powerful.

I don't see why people would have been prejudiced against MacDiarmada because of his disability. MacDiarmada's mind was more important to the movement than his legs - although, notwithstanding his ailment, he continued to travel the country organising on behalf of the IRB following his bout of polio.

You need only look at someone like FDR, who also suffered a bout of polio that confined him to a wheelchair, to see that such illnesses are no impediment to a full and successful career.

Mr.Nice Guy · 17-10-2010 2:27am

Anyone know who sang the song at the end of the McDonagh episode? I think the song was The Minstrel Boy.

JohnFalstaff · 04-11-2010 12:10am

Just watched the last episode of this series tonight which looked back on the life of Pearse. It was a great ending to what I thought was a great series.

There has been an ongoing thread in the History section relating to this series but I am curious if those who are not specifically keen on history have been watching? I would have thought that this was a subject that would appeal to all viewers?

Bubs101 · 04-11-2010 6:12am

Is their going to be an episode considering the original reaction of the Irish people (disgust) tempered with the secondary reaction of the Irish people after the executions or is this just another show glorifying it without considering that nobody wanted it at the time and it was only because all of the good British generals were fighting a real war elsewhere that they had to send an incompetent idiot to solve matters which turned the whole thing around?

delta_bravo · 04-11-2010 8:34am

Bubs101 wrote: »

Is their going to be an episode considering the original reaction of the Irish people (disgust) tempered with the secondary reaction of the Irish people after the executions or is this just another show glorifying it without considering that nobody wanted it at the time and it was only because all of the good British generals were fighting a real war elsewhere that they had to send an incompetent idiot to solve matters which turned the whole thing around?

Watch the show and make up your own mind.

Bubs101 · 04-11-2010 11:54am

delta_bravo wrote: »

Watch the show and make up your own mind.

Wish I could but I'm in China. WOuld just love to see an episode devoted to the instant reaction compared to the legacy, most interesting bit of it by miles for me. Will check it out when I get back

Morlar · 04-11-2010 12:02pm

JohnFalstaff wrote: »

You need only look at someone like FDR, who also suffered a bout of polio that confined him to a wheelchair, to see that such illnesses are no impediment to a full and successful career.

Just on the subject of politicians with visible disabilities prospering - Josef Goebbels also had a club foot after a series of childhood ilnesses and it never held him back.

Krusader · 04-11-2010 6:53pm

Bubs101 wrote: »

Wish I could but I'm in China. WOuld just love to see an episode devoted to the instant reaction compared to the legacy, most interesting bit of it by miles for me. Will check it out when I get back

Can you get this in China
http://beo.tg4.ie/main.aspx?level=1916

All the programmes should be there, i think

delta_bravo · 05-11-2010 3:41pm

Bubs101 wrote: »

Wish I could but I'm in China. WOuld just love to see an episode devoted to the instant reaction compared to the legacy, most interesting bit of it by miles for me. Will check it out when I get back

They mentioned both towards the end. The fact that the British had to protect the rebels from the locals as they marched them to Richmond Barracks as they were taunted and jeered at Marrowbone Lane.

They discussed the legacy aswelll.

Mr.Nice Guy · 05-11-2010 8:15pm

I've read some books that have suggested the idea that the people en masse were disgusted by the Rising is too simplistic. I think it may have been in Charles Townshend's book on the Rising where it was said the working classes were more sympathetic to the rebels than the middle classes. This is probably not surprising since the likes of Connolly and Markievicz had been helping out these people in previous years such as during the Lock-Out in 1913.

Krusader · 07-11-2010 7:34pm

delta_bravo wrote: »

They mentioned both towards the end. The fact that the British had to protect the rebels from the locals as they marched them to Richmond Barracks as they were taunted and jeered at Marrowbone Lane.

They discussed the legacy aswelll.

I actually didnt think the civilian casualties would of been so high, over 250 i think they said

1916 - Seachtar na Casca. When does it start?

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