CBC Radio will broadcast The Triumph of Failure: Ireland 1916, a special two-hour program commemorating the centenary of the Easter Rising. The program can be heard on Sunday, March 27, after the 9:00 a.m. news (Eastern time), on CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition or online at http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition.
Host Michael Enright recently returned from Dublin where he spoke with Irish authors, scholars, and storytellers, including:
• Dr. Patrick Geoghegan, historian
• Deirdre Nic Eanruig, active member of the 1916 Relatives Association
• Lia Mills, author of a novel about the Easter Rising
• Declan Kiberd, Irish Studies professor
• Senator David Norris, politician, activist and James Joyce scholar
• Colm O’Gorman, head of Amnesty International in Ireland
• Tara Flynn, actor, author and activist
• Alan Titley, writer and scholar