TV: Crowe flies in to rescue the Rising

Rebellion was a drama without scope or subtlety

Dr Catriona Crowe of the National Archives with Michael Gorman in Life before the Rising (RTE One)

Reviewed this week

Rebellion RTÉ One

Life Before the Rising RTÉ One

Bridget and Eamon RTÉ One

In terms of historical drama, context is everything.Rebellion(RTÉ One) sprang at us with little sense of context, other than the beginning of the First World War, and, after the first episode, lurched forward in time to the eve of the Rising in 1916. Suddenly people were running around Dublin killing each other. Whatever for?

There was ...