Rebellion: Series 2 DVD

It is 1920. Jimmy Mahon is working for Michael Collins' 'squad'; his older brother Patgrick is an RIC officer in the British Army. Banker Harry Butler is funding rebels and Unionists alike through his Ponzi scheme; his wife Constance is a doyenne of the separatist cause courting the American President's envoy, Senator Shea. In British Intelligence HQ, Ursula Sweeney is a cryptologist while her estranged sister Agnes works in the Sinn Fein midnight courts. Spinning events to devastating effect is Sinn Fein propagandist Eithne Drury.

Dublin Castle is in a permanent state of lockdown and the rural communities are caught in the crossfire of the Black and Tans and the Flying Columns, brutalised by both sides. It is a time of high tension, fear and anxiety, rife with double-agents and unreliable narrators. It is a world of contrast too; the rooftops, cellars and rat-runs; the warm and opulent receptions of the Butler's household; the mean Dublin tenements where children are left to fend for themselves.