Diarmuid Lynch's guest appearances

Diarmuid Lynch

OTB AM

Hidden Histories

James Joyce

Frederick Douglass

Kevin Barry

Marcus Garvey

Alan Parker

Mary Elmes

Gordon Bennett

Michael Griffin

William Stanley

Peter Rice

Jack Lynch

Danny La Rue

Christy Brown

Jimmy Hasty

John Mitchel

OwlTail

Easter Sunday is, for the State and many others, a day of reflection and commemoration. We know the names of many who died in the Easter Rising – but sometimes, it is the stories of those who survived that can fascinate.Easter Rising volunteer Diarmuid Lynch for instance, in the midst of a food crisis which threatened starvation, led a group of men who ‘commandeered’ pigs destined for exportation, slaughtering them and distributing the bacon to Dublin’s poor. The story made heroes of Volunteers in 1918, in the very streets where they’d been booed and jeered two years earlier.Donal Fallon joins Gavan Reilly for another episode of Hidden Histories.

Easter Sunday is, for the State and many others, a day of reflection and commemoration. We know the names of many who died in the Easter Rising – but sometimes, it is the stories of those who survived that can fascinate.<br>Easter Rising volunteer Diarmuid Lynch for instance, in the midst of a food crisis which threatened starvation, led a group of men who ‘commandeered’ pigs destined for exportation, slaughtering them and distributing the bacon to Dublin’s poor. The story made heroes of Volunteers in 1918, in the very streets where they’d been booed and jeered two years earlier.<br>Donal Fallon joins Gavan Reilly for another episode of Hidden Histories.

Hidden Histories: Diarmuid Lynch the 'Pignapper'