'A Terrible Beauty' is a unique film that offers a fresh approach to the 1916 Rising in Dublin. It tells the little-known stories of the ordinary Irish Volunteer, British soldier and civilian caught up in the fighting. It is centered on two linked events during that Easter week, the battles of Mount Street Bridge and North King Street, culminating in the massacre of fifteen innocent young men and boys.

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Trailer for the film 'A Terrible Beauty', which looks at the story of the 1916 Easter Rising from a fresh and unbiased perspective. It tells the story of the two most ferocious battles to take place during Easter Week 1916, the battles of Mount Street Bridge and North King Street. Using the first-hand accounts left behind by Irish Volunteers, British soldiers and the civilians caught up in the fighting, to drive the narrative, it gives the 'ordinary' people involved in the Rising a chance to tell their side of the story.