A TV Pageant - The Golden Jubilee Commemorations of the 1916 Rising

brennan1979

Article from the Irish Story website about RTÉ's coverage of the golden jubilee commemorations of the Easter Rising in 1966.

http://www.theirishstory.com/2010/11/18/a-tv-pageant-%e2%80%93-the-golden-jubilee-commemorations-of-the-1916-rising/

Notorious97

interesting read, thanks for that.

Im hoping the 100 year anniversary something special is done, hopefully the country will be in a far better place, but who knows!

Can anybody tell me where id find the programmes and interviews with participants of the rising that this passage makes reference too? I have seen some footage and would be happy if i could find more to watch!

Thanks

brennan1979

Notorious97 wrote: »

interesting read, thanks for that.

Im hoping the 100 year anniversary something special is done, hopefully the country will be in a far better place, but who knows!

Can anybody tell me where id find the programmes and interviews with participants of the rising that this passage makes reference too? I have seen some footage and would be happy if i could find more to watch!

Thanks

http://www.rte.ie/laweb/ll/ll_t06_main.html

RTÉ's Library and Archive's page contains some clips from the Golden Jubilee but unfortunately they're very low quality and almost all the clips are only 2 to 3 minutes long.

The comments on the original article contain links to some of the radio documentaries aired by RTÉ during the commemorations.

It does raise a wider question of why RTÉ don't make more use of their archive and hopefully, as you said, RTÉ will put a similar effort into the 100th anniversary in 2016.

johnny_doyle

I have a copy of the RTV Guide for the 1966 commemorations shown on the page.

Would love to see RTE produce a DVD of some of the programmes from the 1966 celebrations.

brennan1979

johnny_doyle wrote: »

I have a copy of the RTV Guide for the 1966 commemorations shown on the page.

Would love to see RTE produce a DVD of some of the programmes from the 1966 celebrations.

That's a great souvenir to have Johnny. I read through it, and some other old RTV Guides, in the newspaper archive in the National Library.

It would be fantastic if RTÉ produced a DVD on the 1966 celebrations. I just hope the tapes are still in existence.

Notorious97

Thanks for the links, would be great to see a DVD of rare footage and interviews, best way to learn about the rising is to read and hear what the participants have to say about it!

The Scientician

I would imagine something like Insurrection would sell well on DVD, especially coming up to 2016.