Something to watch on the TG4 archives:

Soviet na hÉireann explores socialism in Ireland post-WWI and looks at whether Ireland could have had a Soviet-style revolution.

“Could our history have been very different had the labour movement rather than Sinn Fein led Ireland to nationhood? Had Labour leaders launched a worker’s revolution against Britain, could we have avoided, the trauma of the civil war, decades of grinding poverty, the tradegy of emmigration, and the bitter sectarian partition of the island?”

To view the programme, go to the TG4 archives, then click ‘Faisnéis - Cartlann’ in the left menu and select Soviet na hÉireann from the list. It was originally shown on the 22nd. The programme is in Irish with English subtitles.