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During April 1916 in Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brun wrote in his tiny diary while across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades across Moore Street and participating in the executions of Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh. It gives new insights into the rebellion's grim closing days.
List of contents
Contents Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 The Easter Rising, Day By Day 14 'Some Wrote Diaries of Events to Date ...' 17 Transcript of the 1916 Diary of Volunteer Seosamh de Brun 47 Transcript of Seosamh de Brun's Statement to the Bureau of Military History, 22 October 1949 101 A Sortie from Jacob's 132 Escape from Jacob's 146 'Absolutely Full of Sinn Feinners' 155 Transcript of the Personal Diary of 3415 Coy. Sgt. Major S. H. Lomas 162 References 189
About the author
Mick O'Farrell was born in Dublin in 1966, the year of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. He has been studying the history and locations of the Rising for some years. He is the author of '50 Things You Didn't know about 1916', 'A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916' and '1916: What the People Saw'.
Summary
During April 1916 in Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brun wrote in his tiny diary while across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades across Moore Street and participating in the executions of Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh. It gives new insights into the rebellion's grim closing days.
