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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 RED CROSS NURSE AND DESPATCH RIDER. 13 I think that I raced the car that evening quicker than ever before in my life, so anxious was I to get those letters posted before I could be held up again, and this time I was successful. A small town near to where I was staying in the country was burned to the ground. The military were there all day, but withdrew late that night. During the night the Republicans met, and arranged to have a large meeting on the following night, at which a very much wanted man was coming to speak. Late next evening the military suddenly returned, and held up all roads leading to the town, allowing neither entrance nor exit, Those men coming to speak at the meeting later that night must be armed, above all, the wanted man must not come within the trap. A girl came to me with a message. We were to go out by a certain road and warn a scout, whom we would meet, that the military were in possession. VVe got into the car, and ventured towards the cordon of military, and I stated my sup- posed case-a nurse, wanted to attend a poor woman who was very ill; I must get through. At first it seemed hopeless; I was told that I could not get through under any circumstances. But I still insisted, and after a long parley the oliicer allowed us to pass, on condition that two soldiers accompanied us there and back. I consented, and we started, and I managed to whisper to the girl beside me that when we met the scout I would stop the car and ask for water, and that she-who was a native Irish speaker-must manage to give our message to him in Gaelic. We met the boy just outside his own door, and I stopped and asked for water for the car. He understood, of course, that

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