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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 TRIAL AND COURTMARTIAL. 29 not feeling very fit after five months’ imprisonment. and he actually refused me. I never could have believed that a professional man could be so small- minded, and I know that he allowed milk to the common women from the streets of Belfast, who did not require it as much as I did. Christmas arrived, and some friends tried to get me out of prison on parole for the holidays, but they were refused, of course. Before leaving the subject of Armagh Jail, I would like to say that of all the five prisons in which I sojourned, Armagh was far the best. The Governor was a woman, and a gentle- woman in the true sense of the word. She was well fitted for the post, and exceedingly capable in every way. The food there was well cooked and cleanly served, the discipline was excellent, and her sub- ordinates were all most anxious to please their Governor in every way. I afterwards found that she was superior to the Governors of other jails in many ways. For example, she adhered to the law that a prisoner was innocent until found guilty, and that the safe custody of the prisoner is a big considera- tion. I was allowed an ordinary bed and ordinary washing basin, while in Mountjoy the women await- ing trial there had to sleep on plank beds. In Armagh there were just a certain number of ordinary beds, and these the Governor allotted to the political prisoners as long as there was one unoccupied. There were eight or nine women political prisoners awaiting trial, but for some reason I was not allowed to associate with them, although we met on odd occasions and exchanged a few whispered sentences. Towards the end of March, 1921, I was brought to Belfast for the “summary of evidence,” and so .4 3:’-‘J

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