Remembering The 1916 Easter Rising, Ireland 1971

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
  • 100 year old Anne Jane Smith recalls the 1916 Rising and her efforts to return home on Easter Monday.
    Having spent the weekend in Old Bawn, Tallaght, Anne Jane Smith went to return home on Easter Monday. On a bus to the city, she recalls overhearing conversations with passengers talking about the Jacob’s factory, where Ann Jane worked.
    1916 - I remember that well. Very well
    Getting off the bus in Terenure to catch the Rathfarnham tram she soon learned that the tram would never come as the Rising took hold of Dublin city streets.
    Walking she was met by her worried sister, who informed her of what was happening. At the time Anne Jane lived at the corner of Bishop Street and Bride Street and ignoring her sister’s advice, headed on home.
    I never heard a shot in my life until then. Neither did I know what a rebellion was.
    This episode of ‘Newsbeat’ was broadcast on 26 March 1971. The reporter is Frank Hall.
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Комментарии • 42

  • @olieahern1318
    @olieahern1318 2 года назад +35

    Tough woman for tough times God bless her pure gold.

  • @seandelap6268
    @seandelap6268 2 года назад +43

    What a woman no doubt she went through a lot in her life.

  • @dylandavos9645
    @dylandavos9645 2 года назад +28

    Jaysus, she was 45 when the 1916 rising happened. Crazy.

  • @susanstolworthy7039
    @susanstolworthy7039 4 месяца назад +7

    My grandmother was born in 1921, she told me her father was also there for the rising, so many stories of hardship, she told me during her childhood in the middle of the night, she would be woken up and all the family were moving guns and weapons around the village from the English, the English were very nasty, although she was sent to England to work at 15, she said the English will never capture her heart, she always told me to remember I may have been born English, but I have been raised with an Irish heart, I wish she was alive today to see how mighty and great Ireland is.

    • @lamalama9717
      @lamalama9717 2 месяца назад

      My story is identical, but a Grandfather in my case.

  • @georgel74
    @georgel74 2 года назад +24

    Great flow of speech.. 👏👏

  • @danielosullivan3110
    @danielosullivan3110 2 года назад +24

    My grandparents were involved in this. Seamus Roach,and Daniel O'Sullivan both came here to the US afterwards ❤️☘️

  • @theRappinSpree
    @theRappinSpree 2 года назад +23

    I wonder how much longer she lived after this. Fascinating piece.

  • @liamanderson1960
    @liamanderson1960 Год назад +12

    God bless her. Tuff as nails and beautiful

  • @jakenconor
    @jakenconor 2 года назад +16

    Wow. This is fantastic.
    Great Post.
    Keep up the good work .

  • @RoryVanucchi
    @RoryVanucchi 2 года назад +10

    Great work. Time capsule

  • @wittywoo9559
    @wittywoo9559 2 года назад +9

    Irish gold ! Thanks

  • @taramccarthy3613
    @taramccarthy3613 2 года назад +14

    My great great grandparents and grandparents were involved the with this. Great great Granddad O'Carroll was shot by the English for not giving away the whereabouts his sons were before this day.

  • @farmhand6524
    @farmhand6524 2 года назад +6

    Thank you for the upload...

  • @spikeycat81
    @spikeycat81 4 месяца назад +1

    Wow this is great. I'm from Tallaght

  • @kowalski504
    @kowalski504 2 года назад +27

    Long Live Ireland. Much love from Italy ! Brits out of Ulster !

    • @09weenic
      @09weenic Год назад

      Question- why is Italy shaped like a wellington boot
      Answer - do you think you could fit all that shit into a tennis shoe 😂😂😂

  • @peppaminecraft10
    @peppaminecraft10 2 года назад +12

    Can we see the rest of this interview or similar to it?

  • @jb6368
    @jb6368 2 года назад +13

    Different breed.

    • @KratomFlavoredAdidas
      @KratomFlavoredAdidas 2 года назад +6

      our old people nowadays suffer from early dementia because their minds got shut off

  • @Shirazyoni
    @Shirazyoni Год назад +4

    Hi Just to let you know, you have incorrect spelling of her surname. it's the other spelling of Smyth, she was distant cousin of my grandmother's.

  • @rossmorebaz
    @rossmorebaz Год назад +2

    there was a tram out to tallaght in 1916 !!! ..

  • @TheBenzer9
    @TheBenzer9 2 года назад +5

    Oldbawn for the weekend..must book something there..is it any good?

  • @CritThink1
    @CritThink1 2 года назад +26

    All changed, changed utterly:
    A terrible beauty is born.

  • @ossian11
    @ossian11 2 года назад +5

    Imagine if she'd been in the city in the actual rising.

    • @jacktravers5049
      @jacktravers5049 2 года назад +1

      My great grandmother was, she was pissed, hated the rebels ruining her city, she was a business woman then. Her buses windows were blown in was the story.

    • @ahopefor
      @ahopefor 2 года назад +3

      @@jacktravers5049 A lot of people felt that way until the executions took place.

    • @jacktravers5049
      @jacktravers5049 2 года назад +1

      @@ahopefor I think she genuinely didn't like the rebels after the fact. Older I get less I see any merit in what they did also. Executions were bad, didn't make those executed saints or their ideals worthy. I beleive it was the diplomacy after the fact that should be celebrated and that's pretty much how I learned it in school.

  • @sean_d
    @sean_d Год назад +1

    Surely they have her recollections of the aftermath, popular feeling, etc, also the stuff in the 20s? This is like a teaser...

  • @adbl.d6324
    @adbl.d6324 2 года назад +7

    ah, to once again never had heard a shot in one’s life before

    • @paulbyrne2613
      @paulbyrne2613 2 года назад +1

      Aahh?

    • @KratomFlavoredAdidas
      @KratomFlavoredAdidas 2 года назад

      I do wish people would go back to mildly maiming each other rather than shooting each other carelessly. Old timey violence was more honorable and required talent rather than bullets

  • @df289
    @df289 Год назад +1

    There was a steam tram in Tallagh in 1916?

  • @rosine749
    @rosine749 5 месяцев назад +1

    "Ah sure its the rebellion"

  • @barbaralloyd3770
    @barbaralloyd3770 9 дней назад

    My aunt was born in 1912 ĥer two brothers fought inthe rising thay sure had some tales to tell there surived but.whas sŕoies thay , a

  • @Occident.
    @Occident. Год назад +5

    IRELAND BELONGS TO THE IRISH.🇮🇪32.