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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 ON BOARD THE DESTROYER-ARMAGH JAIL. 25 should remain standing, and would not allow me to sit down beside the wardresses. I resented this very much at the time, but after all it was only another wasp sting from the enemy. We drove through Belfast, and thus-under the protection of the great British Empire !-I got my first view of the chief Northern town. I had never visited Belfast before, and I shall certainly not break my heart if I never visit it again. We reached the prison, and behold! I was not wanted there; it being a male prison, the Governor refused to take me in, and I was returned with thanks to the lorry! We then drove to the Victoria Barracks, and here I was brought from one military officer to another, and it was amusing to watch the expression on their faces as each officer in his turn tried to hand me on to some one else. Again I was hoisted into the lorry, and again driven through the streets of Belfast, and all this time without a scrap of food of any kind ' since my cup of poor cocoa at 5 a.m. that morning, and it was now after 3 p.m. We then arrived at the Bridewell, and after many questions I was locked up in a horrid cell. One word here on bridewells. I consider them a disgrace to civilisation, and I had a good experience of them later on during my trial. The cells are terribly dirty and stuffy, and also not sulliciently ventilated, while the system of having a lavatory in each cell is disgusting, especially if a prisoner is detained for a certain period, and having meals in the bridewell. I asked for something to eat-as well I might!- and the policeman on duty got me some tea sent in from outside. To add insult to injury, one has to L‘-‘

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