The Rising: 1916

The Rising: 1916

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.

The Rising: 1916

The Rising: 1916
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.
Producers
Original title The Rising: 1916
Directors
Writers Kevin McCann, Colin Broderick

Cast

Colin Morgan

as Seán Mac Diarmada/John MacDermott

Brendan Coyle

as Augustine Birrell

Fiona Shaw

as Countess Markievicz

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

as P. H. Pearse