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Full Title	In times of peril : leaves from the diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter week, 1916, to Mountjoy, 1921 / edited by Annie M.P. Smithson.
Author	Kearns, Linda.
Contributor	Smithson, Annie M.P. De Valera, Eamon, 1882-1975.
Date Added	4 February 2016
Format	Book
Language	English
Publish Date	1922
Publisher	Dublin : Talbot Press ; London : T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.,
Source	Joseph McGarrity Books.
Topic	Kearns, Linda. Prisoners > Ireland > Diaries. Nurses > Biography. Ireland > History > Easter Rising, 1916.
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OCR 8 IN TIMES OF PERIL. the chance. I was in Moore Street on the afternoon when The O’Rahilly was killed. One of the stretcher-bearers was with me, and we saw him lying in the path, and went over to him, and found that he was dead. But life must have only just left him, for he was quite warm. I have heard many stories since of his death, but do not think any of them can be true. VVe concluded that death must have been instantaneous, for he did not appear to have moved after he had fallen. How calm and peaceful he looked there, clad in the uniform of the Republic for which he died, and with his dead face turned up to that Heaven where his patriot soul had surely gone. Well, Easter Week and its aftermath of bloodrand tears passed, and no doubt England in her stupidity believed that she had quenched the sparks of rebellion beyond rekindling. All the world knows now that the contrary was the result, and that from the smouldering embers of that week flared up the mighty blaze that was to light our land from end to end. Those of us who had risked "our all in '16 Were not likely to be backward when the call for our services came again, and in 1917 I was once mote engaged in despatch work. One episode of this period I remember very vividly. I was to carry an important despatch from Dublin to the ‘West. It was to be handed to me at the Broadstone. I can- not, for obvious reasons, go into strict details, but suffice it to say that by using a certain password: the message was handed to me-slipped between the paper cover and the book itself-in one of those cheap editions of popular novels which we usgccl t0 ,........ -,

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