"The events of the Easter Rising, told in the style contemporary news broadcasts and a series of dramatic reconstructions."
Ray McAnally
as Studio co-ordinator
Eoin Ó Súilleabháin
as Patrick H. Pearse
Gerry Alexander
as Reporter
Jim Norton
as Tom Clarke
Ronnie Walsh
as James Connolly
Declan Harvey
as Joseph Mary Plunkett
Edward Byrne
as Thomas McDonagh
Liam Devally
as Éamonn Ceannt
Pádraig Ó Gaora
as Seán Mac Diarmada
Gerry Sullivan
as Michael Mallin
as Willie Pearse
Conor Farrington
as Sir Roger Casement
Eddie Golden
as Eoin Mac Neill
Kevin Flood
as Michael Joseph O'Rahilly (The O'Rahilly)
Joan O'Hara
as Countess Constance Markievicz
Barry Cassin
as Desmond FitzGerald
Brendan Matthews
as Francis Sheehy - Skeffington
John O'Flynn
as Thomas Ashe
Eddie Doyle
as Richard Mulcahy
Joe Lynch
as Cathal Brugha
Michael McAuliffe
as Michael Collins
Michael Ryan
as Michael Malone
Michael Murray
as Lieutenant Mahony
Seán McCarthy
as James Ryan
Mike Murphy
as Volunteer Officer
Tom O'Rafferty
as Volunteer
Donal McCann
John O'Shea
as John McCarthy
Sheelagh Cullen
as Elizabeth O'Farrell
Eithne Lydon
as Winifred Carney
Sabina Coyne
as Julia Grenan
John Welsh
as James Stephens
Howard Marion-Crawford
as General Sir John Maxwell
Hugh Leonard
Writer
Michael Garvey
Director
Louis Lentin
Producer
A. J. Potter
Music Director