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For almost a week the sedate streets of Dublin 4 echoed to the sounds of gunfire. Bullets ricocheted off Georgian walls and residents looked on in horror as soldiers, rebels and civilians were gunned down in front of them.
Walking along leafy Northumberland Road today, it is hard to fathom that this was once the scene of one of the most prolonged and violent Irish street battles of the 20th Century.
The story of the shoot-out near Mount Street Bridge on the edge of Dublin 4 and other episodes in the 1916 Easter Rising will be told in the docudrama Terrible Beauty, to be shown on TG4 next Monday.
The screening of the film is timely, coming just days after Queen Elizabeth announced that the royal family will take part in centenary celebrations of the Rising in 2016.
Rather than honing in on leaders such as Padraig Pearse and James Connolly, director Keith Farrell decided to focus on ordinary participants in the Rising, including those who fought on the British side.
"I believe that there is now a willingness to hear both sides of the story," says Keith Farrell. "Until now the British soldiers who fought in the Rising have been more or less forgotten, partly because it was seen as an embarrassment, but there is a new interest in them."
Farrell does not flinch from chronicling some of the atrocities committed by British troops, including the shooting of innocent civilians in the North King Street area.
But the film, narrated by Love/Hate actor Peter Coonan, highlights a strong element of tragedy on the British side as well, and puts a human face on soldiers, who have until now been seen as little more than pawns of imperial oppression.
The story of the Dubliner Beatrice Dietrichsen, who was married to an English barrister Frederick, shows the suffering inflicted on families.
Beatrice, who grew up as part of the Mitchell wine family in Dublin, met the Englishman and they lived for a time in Nottinghamshire.
When the World War I broke out, Nottingham came...