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11-03-16, 09:52
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Brendan O'Carroll: My Family at War BBC2 Wed 16 Mar 9 p.m.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/pro...-family-at-war
Following his WDYTYA episode, this is about his uncles who took part in the Easter Rising of 1916. 
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11-03-16, 09:59
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I am not sure whether to watch this or not. I like Brendan O'Carroll and I think he is a very intelligent man. However, I think his view is likely to be very biased. I don't think I've ever heard either side of the Irish debate concede that the other side might have been partly right!
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12-03-16, 17:56
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I reckon this was made to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising. It will be over-romanticised (I recall his WDYTYA episode tended towards the 'twiddly-diddly'), make out the IRA were some sort of folk heroes and gloss over the hideous civil war which followed.
Prob still watch it, though!
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12-03-16, 19:50
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Oh, undoubtedly he will make them heroes, how could he do anythng else?
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16-03-16, 19:54
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My grandmothers cousin George William Barks of the Sherwood Foresters was killed in the Easter rising. I shall certainly watch it.
[COLOR="Blue"]This is the day George died. It mentions the Sherwood Forresters. [/COLOUR http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/bo...1916-1.2188089
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Marg Last edited by Margaret in Burton; 16-03-16 at 21:07.
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