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A NEW INTERACTIVE website from Google lets Colin Farrell guide users on a tour of 1916 Dublin, stopping at 22 different Easter Rising locations.
‘Dublin Rising 1916-2016′ is the work of the web giant along with various Irish State bodies like the National Library and Military Archives.
At each stop during the tour, Google Street View shows you what the location looks like today and there are a number of options to bring users a century back in time.
Options like being able to click on old photos of the location or century-old videos of Dublin life walking by.
As you stand looking at the GPO of today, for example, they’ll see the GPO as it was 100 years ago, destroyed by shell fire.
There are even digital copies of significant documents relating to the location and audio recordings of eyewitness accounts.
For example, stop four on the tour brings users to Dublin Castle and City Hall where the first fatalities of the Rising died, Constable James O’Brien and Captain Seán Connolly.
One of the most valuable accounts of these deaths is Helana Molony, one of the rebels who went to take the castle.
‘Dublin Rising 1916-2016′ allows users click on an actor’s rendition of her testimony as they look at the scene as it exists today.
Actor Colin Farrell narrates the entire journey, right from the introduction of the tour and at each stop until it finishes at Arbour Hill, the burial place of the executed leaders.
The entire project is a collaboration between Google’s Cultural Insititute and various branches of the State.
Google vice-president and head of Google Ireland Ronan Harris says that 1916 is significant event that shaped modern Ireland, something the company wants to share with a global audience.
Google is about giving everyone access to the best information, culture and experiences through technology and this tour gives people a way to peel back the layers of history and experience what life was like 100 years ago in Ireland.
The project is available on phone, tablet or computer and was launched this evening by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys.
Click here to access the Dublin Rising 1916-2016 Tour
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Well, I didn’t see that coming tbh, but anything is better than the shinners trying to claim ownership of it.
Nobody owns it but SF it seems are the only ones willing to celebrate it..
“celebrate” it by creating an anti-social scene on Moore Street. Thuggish behaviour is not celebration.
Would that be like the “anti-social scene” the men and women of 1916 created?
Unfortunately the powers-that-be in our great little country don’t listen to (and permanently lie to) it’s citizens, so what else to do?
Give it a rest, we can all celebrate/commemorate it together, stop being so divisive.
You call occupying a building anti social and thuggish behaviour. Do you even know what the Easter Rising was you numpty, people occupying buildings but with weapons. I suppose that was thuggish behaviour as well. Laughable that a clown with that imbecile O’Duffy as your name and picture talking about thuggish behaviour. You mustn’t be the brightest spark, or wasn’t listening during history class.
….@oduffy and vinnie.
Phil the thing is I can guarantee you those two have never before been to an Easter Rising commemoration before, and if they do go to an event this year it’ll more than likely be the only one they attend. SF proudly remember the Rising every year so I must say it’s to be welcomed that the establishment parties have put on events this year, even if some are half hearted exercises just for show. Will they bother celebrating iy next year though, probably not.
It would surprise me in the least if Enda was holding a placard saying “Careful Now” outside the GPO Easter Sunday this year…
Rise to the pseudonym trolls lads. Exactly what he wants.
I doubt either of them have any interest in events.
Out come the shinnerbots with the usual BS and insults. You really are a pathetic bunch.
@Vinnie,
You brought up “the shinners” in your own post.
@pjm the facts don’t support your lie… But tell the lie big enough and often enough and eventually you will change truth… Robert Mac Sands was starved to death by the wicked witch of Finchley because he asked her nicely to give peace loving members of the Irish Respect Association basic human rights like flushing toilets and Yorkshire pudding.
What are you talking about you demented fool, are you kissed drunk or what?
*pissed
Vinnie (or whatever you are calling yourself these days), Danny Morrison wrote a piece in the Examiner the other day. http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/no-one-owns-or-has-a-monopoly-on-the-rising-or-its-legacy-375428.html Here are some excerpts.
“No one, not the IRA, not Sinn Féin, not Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael, nor any party or organisation, owns or has a monopoly on the Rising or its legacy”
“It is easier to repeatedly attack Sinn Féin, and internalise our problem, than it is to confront the British government on collusion, its agencies’ involvement in bombings and assassinations, including the killing of dozens in Dublin and Monaghan.”
“If Sinn Féin and the DUP can share power in the North, given our bloody past, then isn’t it about time that Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and Labour ‘cease-fired’ in the South, stopped using the Troubles as a substitute for political debate, and simply agreed to disagree about the legacy of 1916 whilst honouring the undoubted bravery of the men and women who fought at Easter Week?”
You better report that “thuggish” behavior, but be prepared to be laughed at by the cops.
Good link Brian.
Agree, worth a read.
Don’t you recognise the story your official textbooks will contain when the thousand year Marxist-Adamsian reign is five years old and getting fat on the corruption of power? You already believe the armed struggle was so you could have Devon cream teas in the shadow of Lord Carson.
Can’t we all just get along!
The Irish people own this. Sinn Fein and people like James Connolly’s grandson are defending it against the spin and revisionism of this government – shame on them.
Fair play to Google. After all the years of paying low tax to the country and not employing the educated workforce as much as they said they would they’re finally giving back. Hopefully more Irish based activities on their website over the next few years.
That is a pretty stupid comment. They employ about 1000 Irish graduates and planned only about 100. Just because you did not make the cut does not mean they are not employing.
hahahahahahaha
Make the cut ? Good one pal.
This presentation was not approved by Sinn Fein’s Historical Revisions Council.
At best it should be viewed cautiously.
Thankfully SF want to celebrate our history unlike the blue shirts who want to destroy it.
Interesting when you click on the photos of the Moore Street buildings that most of the street was knocked down, completely flattened.
You’d wonder how many original buildings are even left standing on Moore Street now, looks like very few are original from that Google photo.
Very good from google well worth a look
I wonder if Colin’s narration is on a par with Richard Burton on War of the Worlds.
All aboard the train, which will be the ego trip every tom, dick and Harriet will jump on! I can see the centenary beginning hijacked by those who think it will be cool to go into o’ connell street on easter Monday… Then forget all about it!
How to access the site ? Can anyone help?
Google it?
Great viewing, I never knew the Rotunda Maternity Hospital was the first Maternity hospital in the world. Well done Colin Farrell. Have you read “WHEN THE CLOCK STRUCK IN 1916″ great read, tells the story as it was. Hope they make a movie out of it. Website is “dublinrising.withgoogle.com. Well done Google.
This is very impressive. Its a pity the “journeys” from one site to another go at such a breakneck speed. If slower it would give people are not familiar with Dublin a better opportunity to see the city as it is today
WHO’S VERSION OF HISTORY?
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