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The Poetry of History

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rNew series 1/4. Easter 1916 by WB
Yeats Jonathan Bate presents the programme that examines historical events through the poetry they inspired. With poet Theo Dorgan and historian Diarmuid Ferriter , Bate visits places where Irish history was
"changed, changed utterly" - the General Post Office in Dublin, the hub of the Easter Rising 90 years ago, and Kilmainham Jail, where several of the rebels were executed. Producer Julian May Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

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Yeats Jonathan Bate
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Theo Dorgan
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Diarmuid Ferriter
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