Typed eyewitness account of the Easter Rising,

1916.
Bibliographic Details
Summary:‘The Personal experience of Miss L. Stokes during the Sinn Féin Rebellion of 1916’, Easter Tuesday 25 Apr.- Wednesday 3 May.’ Account describes the fighting between the Volunteers, whom she mistakenly calls ‘Sinn Féiners’ and soldiers. She gives an account of the looting and the reaction of ordinary Dubliners to the Rising and she outlines the difficulty in getting food and coal. Later in the week she describes going to look at ‘the Trenches at the Green gates; they were chiefly manned by children- lads of 16 or 17’. After the surrender on Saturday 29 she writes that ‘Connolly is Henry’s patient, with a fractured ankle and a wound in the arm…Henry was asked, how many men would be sufficient to guard him, considering his condition? He said, one. After some hours he went back to see how he was getting on, and found seven soldiers with fixed bayonets in the room and one outside. Henry protested…at last, after a couple of hours, somebody came, to verify Connolly’s position, and it was found that the order had been, one guard in the room and seven outside’. She called ‘the leader in Bolands’ [Éamon de Valera] ‘a fine looking man called the Mexican, he is educated and speaks like a gentleman’. She also describes the difficulty in acquiring passes and the destruction of Sackville, Henry and Moore streets. [Possibly the Henry Stokes mentioned above was the surgeon at Meath Hospital and later President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, (1940-1941). He was the son of Henry John Stokes, grandson of Whitley Stokes M.D. and had a sister by the name of Lillian (1876-1955) who married her cousin John Boxwell in 1920.]
In collection: Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh and the Ryans of Tomcoole papers, 1854-1983.
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Notes:Physical description: 1 item (10 pages).
Arrangement:Sub-fonds.
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Typed eyewitness account of the Easter Rising,

1916.
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Bibliographic Details
In Collection: Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh and the Ryans of Tomcoole papers, 1854-1983.
Description:‘The Personal experience of Miss L. Stokes during the Sinn Féin Rebellion of 1916’, Easter Tuesday 25 Apr.- Wednesday 3 May.’ Account describes the fighting between the Volunteers, whom she mistakenly calls ‘Sinn Féiners’ and soldiers. She gives an account of the looting and the reaction of ordinary Dubliners to the Rising and she outlines the difficulty in getting food and coal. Later in the week she describes going to look at ‘the Trenches at the Green gates; they were chiefly manned by children- lads of 16 or 17’. After the surrender on Saturday 29 she writes that ‘Connolly is Henry’s patient, with a fractured ankle and a wound in the arm…Henry was asked, how many men would be sufficient to guard him, considering his condition? He said, one. After some hours he went back to see how he was getting on, and found seven soldiers with fixed bayonets in the room and one outside. Henry protested…at last, after a couple of hours, somebody came, to verify Connolly’s position, and it was found that the order had been, one guard in the room and seven outside’. She called ‘the leader in Bolands’ [Éamon de Valera] ‘a fine looking man called the Mexican, he is educated and speaks like a gentleman’. She also describes the difficulty in acquiring passes and the destruction of Sackville, Henry and Moore streets. [Possibly the Henry Stokes mentioned above was the surgeon at Meath Hospital and later President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, (1940-1941). He was the son of Henry John Stokes, grandson of Whitley Stokes M.D. and had a sister by the name of Lillian (1876-1955) who married her cousin John Boxwell in 1920.]
Language:English
Extent:1 item (10 pages).
Format:Manuscript
Call Number: MS 48,461/3 (Manuscripts Reading Room)
Rights:Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.