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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. ‘ 31 seventeen witnesses tell one falsehood after another. I here met my three comrades again, and we amused ourselves by wondering what new version of the night of our arrest we would hear now. Well, they spun their own yarn all right, but they never said a word about the stealing of our property! One man giving evidence told so many lies that he was quite flushed and perspired profusely. Volunteer whispered to me: “ He’s sweating with the dent of his swearing!” Another witness was one whose life had been spared when he went on his knees, begging for mercy from the very men whose lives he was now trying to swear away. The farce was then interrupted by a break for lunch for the officer taking evidence. I was taken to a shed of some kind, and a soldier gave me his dinner and went hungry himself. My thanks and blessings to him! The wardress returned later with some sandwiches, which I gave to my comrades, as I found that they did not get anything whatever to eat all day. VVe returned to Armagh that evening. As we were leaving Victoria Barracks the sergeant asked if I was the prisoner, and when I assented he told me that if they were ambushed I would be treated as a man and shot. I said: “God forgive you!” but by this time I was getting accustomed to that same story, although the poor wardress was rather frightened--I think she was wondering what would become of her in the event of an ambush. VVe got back to Armagh about 9 p.m., tired and weary, and as we reached the jail I said in an audible voice, without thinking of the words I was using:

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