The Easter Rising 1916: Index of Accounts
This is very much a work in progress and I'll be adding to it as I find the material. There is, however, enough here to give a good outline of the events of…
Accounts of the Easter Rising
First-hand accounts of the Easter Rising, the armed rebellion that began in Dublin on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, and ended with the surrender of the insurgents later that week. The collection brings together writers on both sides of the conflict and civilians caught up in it.
Countess Markievicz, who served at St Stephen's Green with the Irish Citizen Army, describes the part played by women in the fighting, in a memoir from her Prison Letters (1934). Nora O'Daly gives an account of Cumann na mBan at St Stephen's Green and the Royal College of Surgeons. Lilly Stokes kept a day-by-day diary of the week as a Dublin civilian, and F. J. Cronin, visiting from Preston, described what he saw in an interview with the Preston Herald in May 1916. In contrast, "Inside Trinity College", written by one of its defenders for Blackwood's Magazine in July 1916, tells the story of the college held against the rebels.
Activities of women in Easter Week.
Fighting Women A memoir by Countess de Markievicz (Prison Letters, 1934)
Fighting women of 1916.
The Women of Easter Week Cumann Na mBan in Stephen’s Green and the College of Surgeons
Some holiday - living through the Rising
The Man from Preston. From the Preston Herald May 6, 1916
A day by day diary of Easter Week 1916.
Miss Lilly Stokes' Diary of Easter Week Published in Nonplus (Dublin, 1916).
And in the other corner.
Inside Trinity College By One of the Garrison (Blackwood's Magazine, July, 1916)