Stoneybatter

This guide to Stoneybatter in Dublin traces a night in May 1916, when army trucks carried the bodies of executed Easter Rising leaders, including Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, to a walled cemetery behind Arbour Hill. You'll hear why General Sir John Maxwell refused grieving families a public funeral, fearing what a coffin carried through Dublin's streets might ignite, and about the pit dug for the men with no coffins or headstones. The guide follows one sergeant major who quietly worked to make sure the men would not be entirely forgotten.