It's Official: Colin Morgan Cast to Play Sean MacDiarmada in The Rising
The Official Twitter page for the upcoming movie The Rising announced today that Colin has been cast in the lead role of Sean MacDiarmada, along with a video of Colin reading from Sean's last letter before his execution on 12 May 1916.
There are plans in the works for the Kickstarter campaign for the film to be reopened, but it hasn't as of yet.
Click to viewThere are plans in the works for the Kickstarter campaign for the film to be reopened, but it hasn't as of yet.
Sean is described is enigmatic and good looking!
yes, in 1912 he contracted polio and walked with a cane afterwards.
Also in some of the picture's he's shaved, but it seems after he was first jailed and or was ill ((I've only flicked through the rest, so haven't quite worked that out) he sported a beard (a great big bushy one!!)
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"I will never forget the shock I got when I met him at the station. A few months before he was a joyous, buoyant lad, full of life and figour. Then he looked a delicate, bearded, middle-aged man, only able to walk with a crutch and stick"
(Madge Daly)
however, friends noticed that after his recuperation he manifested a renewed vigour, and was, if anything, more determined to make a significant contribution to the efforts of national independence
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