Trinity College Dublin is offering a free online history course over the next 14 weeks that will focus on the events and individuals leading up to the April 1916 Rising and creation of the independent Irish state. The course is called Ireland in Rebellion, 1782-1916.

Each week four mini lectures and an interview with a leading expert will be released online via Trinity’s YouTube channel and ITunes U. Weekly content will be 75 minutes long and will be made available every Friday.

The full course schedule and other details are available here. The first video of the series is posted below.