Cesca's Diary

Cesca Trench, also known as the artist Sadhbh Trinseach, was a nationalist activist of ascendancy background. Her diaries are written in Irish, English and French. Born in England of Irish parents, following the death of her father the family moved under the wing of the Irish big house, to the care of the Trench family who were loyal to their kin. As a modern descendant of that house has noted, she was at ease with Gaelic Protestants, and within these families were both landlords and social reformers, British Army officers and Irish Volunteers, Conservative M.P.s, Irish Unionists and Irish Nationalists. Through the life of Cesca Trech, her involvement in Conradh na Gaeilge, Cumann na mBan, Cumann Gaelach na hEaglaise, Irish Volunteers and others, the contradictions and the tensions of that world come centre stage to mark the diverse and complex 90th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Documentary by Arkhive Productions for TG4

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