Cartoonists in love, tricksy Welsh wizards and a fickle public. In this episode we look at how the plucky little 1916 Rising went from being a haphazard mess to one of Ireland's most important historic events, and how this changed the radical fringe group Sinn Fein into a political heavyweight.
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