The Rising: 1916

Overview

In the early 20th Century, a handsome young man leaves a small family farm and becomes the mastermind of a rebellion that changed Ireland forever. Follows the events that led famine Ireland to free Ireland - the 1916 Easter Rising Rebellion and the driving force behind it, Seán MacDiarmada, hero to Michael Collins.

Cast

Colin Morgan

Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott

Brendan Coyle

Augustine Birrell

Fiona Shaw

Countess Markievicz

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

P. H. Pearse