Brendan O’Carroll: World still hasn’t learned the lessons of 1916

Brendan O’Carroll is set to tell the story of the 1916 Rising as experienced by members of his family for a one-off BBC television programme which will air on RTÉ this weekend, and on BBC2 next week.

The star and creator of Mrs Brown’s Boys will tell the story of his uncles, Liam and Peadar, who took part in the Rising. Liam once ordered the killing of a British solder and went on to spend time in Frongoch prison camp in Wales.

The BBC audience will already be familiar with Mr O’Carroll’s connection to Ireland’s revolutionary period. In 2014, he featured in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? in which he investigated the assassination of his republican grandfather Peter during the War of Independence, and found out the identity of the British officer who killed him.