“Hide Your Guns, There’ll Be Another Day”
Despite receiving Eoin MacNeill’s countermanding order, once they got word that the Rising had started, the Galway Brigade, Irish Volunteers quickly mobilised. Roughly 900 Volunteers made their way to...
View Article“It Was A Proper Ambush”
On Wednesday 26 April the 2/7th and 2/8th Battalions, Sherwood Foresters arrived at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) in order to put down the Rising. The regiment was made up mostly of raw recruits with very...
View Article“They Broke All The Ground Floor Windows”
On Wednesday 26 April, pacifist and journalist, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington was murdered in Portobello Barracks. Captain J.C. Bowen-Colthurst, an officer stationed in the barracks had ordered the...
View Article“I Heard A Shot”
On Easter Monday the Dundalk Battalion, Irish Volunteers entered the village of Castlebellingham. Their destination was Tara, County Meath. They stopped in the village to gather provisions. A short...
View Article“Regular Hell Opened Up”
Séamus Kavanagh was one of four men stationed in Robert’s Yard on the morning of Wednesday 26 April. Robert’s Yard was located between Mount Street Bridge and Grand Canal Bridge. From their location...
View Article“A Shot Rang Out From This Sniper”
Cormac Turner fought in Hopkins and Hopkins, overlooking O’Connell Bridge. One of the major problems the Volunteers faced was lack of arms and ammunition. The Volunteers in Hopkins were armed only with...
View Article“If I Was Ordered To Do It, I Would Have To Do It”
Bertie Offiler was a member of the Sherwood Foresters. He was one of thousands of recruits that arrived in Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) on 26 April to put down the Rising. His unit suffered heavy losses...
View Article“Naturally Being A Kid I Started To Cry”
Despite being only sixteen years old, Vinny Byrne was a member of ‘E’ Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. His Battalion were told to mobilise on Easter Sunday at Fr Mathew Park,...
View Article“There Was A Great Crashing Of Glass”
Stella Archer had only recently began working as a Girl Probationer in the General Post Office. She had cycled into work on Easter Monday morning and left her bicycle in the basement. Recalling the...
View Article“An Officer Saluting A Rebel”
After the surrender on 29 April Eamon Dore and a number of his colleagues were brought to the Parnell Statue and held there. Later that evening Dore saw his friend Edward Daly, Commandant of the Four...
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