The Volunteer - The Story of Capt. Patrick Dalton

He grew up on the streets of Dublin - an ordinary boy from an ordinary neighbourhood. But Patrick Dalton came of age at an extraordinary moment, in a city on the brink of revolution. In this episode, we tell the story of how a teenage rebel stumbled into a real-life rebellion - and what that collision made of him."Dublin in 1916 was not a backdrop. It was a furnace. And Patrick Dalton was thrown right into it."From the smoke-filled streets of the Easter Rising to the shadow war of the War of Independence, and finally into the heartbreak of the Civil War, we follow Dalton through seven years that transformed not just a city and a country, but the young man himself. What does revolution ask of ordinary people — and what does it take from them?Drawing on witness statements, brigade records, and local Dublin sources, this is a ground-level story of Ireland's revolutionary period — told through one ordinary man who lived every chapter of it.