Brendan O'Carroll: My Family at War BBC2 Wed 16 Mar 9 p.m.

[kiterunner]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2016/11/my-family-at-war

Following his WDYTYA episode, this is about his uncles who took part in the Easter Rising of 1916.

[Olde Crone]

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!

OC

[Shona]

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!

[James18]

Does he drag up at any point?

[Olde Crone]

Oh, undoubtedly he will make them heroes, how could he do anythng else?

OC

[Margaret in Burton]

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.


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http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/an-easter-rising-timeline-wednesday-april-26th-1916-1.2188089

[HarrysMum]

I must see if we are getting that show. I have only ever heard the story from my grandfather who was a medical student at Trinity College in Dublin at the time.