Dr Geoffrey Sloan uncovers unseen evidence about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising for BBC Radio 4's Document
Release Date 11 March 2013
Dr Geoffrey Sloan, lecturer in politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading and an expert in strategic studies, was interviewed as part of the BBC Radio 4 flagship history programme Document.
The programme examined the Easter Rising - the Dublin Rebellion of 1916 - examining what the British Cabinet really knew about the preparations to the rebellion by Irish republicans and why it appeared to take Britain's political establishment by surprise.