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Arthur Shields is better known as a character actor in a slew of Hollywood Movies, many classic American TV shows. He is remembered for his theatre career both as actor and director with The Abbey and as the younger brother of Will Shields the Oscar winning actor “Barry Fitzgerald”, but hardly ever for the dramatic and valiant way he fought in the Rising in 1916!

The second programme in this series looking back at Easter 1916 through the people who made history and those whom the history books have maybe neglected or forgotten. Episode two walks in the footsteps of the Capuchin monks as they help negotiate the surrender of the rebel outposts and accompany the leaders to their executions.

Looks back at the commemoration of 1966, the first major attempt to understand the Easter Rising of 1916.