麻豆约拍

Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's poetry archive and selects The Poetry of History - Easter 1916.

Jonathan Bate examines historical events through the poetry they inspired.

Easter, 1916 by W.B. Yeats

With the poet Theo Dorgan, novelist Anne Enright and historian Diarmaid Ferriter, Jonathan visits places where Irish history was 'changed, changed utterly' and, Yeats declared, 'a 'terrible beauty' was born, - the General Post Office in Dublin, the hub of the Easter Rising 90 years ago, and Kilmainham Gaol, where several of the rebels were executed.

The poem is read by Jim Norton.

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2006.