The grandson of one of the 1916 leaders, the O'Rahilly, tells his grandfather's heroic story... Sunday Miscellany: The Lead Up, by Proinsias Ó Rathaille
On the 23rd of April, 1916 my grandfather - the O'Rahilly - returned to his home on Herbert Park an exhausted man...
This essay appeared on the programme of March 29th (an archive special, recorded in 2016 to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising) - listen back here
