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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 ARREST. 19 As to Sligo Jail itself, I suppose it is like most other jails-dreary and dull, and grey and miserable. Some days afterwards-days that had the length of weeks-I was called at 5 a.m., and ordered to dress and prepare for removal. When I was brought out to the gate I was astonished to see there my own car! There was also a lorry, in which were the three boys who had been arrested with me and some others, including Dr. and Professor I shall never forget leaving Sligo that morning, I felt so thoroughly wretched, and everything appeared so dull and dreary in the cold twilight before the dawn of a November day. I was put into my own car, and we started off. We went by a route I knew well, and which I had travelled over often under happier auspices. Ah! many a glorious run I had had over those roads in other days. And I could not but wonder would I ever see those days again, for at that time it seemed very unlikely, indeed, but, as a fellow-sufferer with me has written on the title page of his delightful little book, “ “CA 014 mm: Agus CA mzltam mmt Ange! ” I hafed the ollicer who drove my car. He did not know the first thing about driving, but mixed up the left-hand steering with the right, and indeed I have often wondered since how we ever got to our destination without trouble. As it was, he ran down a side road by mistake, and could not reverse the car, and had to get a soldier from the lorry to bring us back to the main road. At last we got to the sea coast, and turning my eyes towards the water I felt suddenly faint, and an icy hand gripped my heart. For there, lying just outside, was a British destroyer, and I thought at once that we were being

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