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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #101: Ireland Rising, with Ronan Burtenshaw
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One hundred years ago this April, a small group of socialists, schoolteachers, and other nationalist rebels staged an uprising in Dublin designed to put an end to British rule in Ireland. The Easter Rising was unsuccessful, but it set forth the ideals for an Irish Republic that are s...