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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 32 IN TIMES OF PERIL. “Thank God we’re home!” Someone in the lorry laughed. “ ]ail-home!” But it was home to me, and after my experiences of the Belfast Bridewell it seemed a very haven of rest. I had now to wait for my courtmartial, and a weary fortnight passed. It was glorious spring weather, and the snowdrops followed by the daffodils were coming up in the jail garden. ‘How often I watched them, for they seemed to bring a message from the free world outside, and while I gazed at them only God knows how I longed for my freedom. What vistas those few blossoms opened up of the fair free woods and fields of my early home, where one could wander at will in the days gone by before the Terror had stricken our land. And turning my eyes from them I met again the grey walls and bolts and locks of my present abode. And yet how much worse I might have been, and was to be before long! Ah! it is a merciful thing that we cannot see into the future; how many of us could do it and live ? I was allowed a good deal of exercise both before and after dinner, but four “Ulster Specials ”-ill-omened title!-were always in view, and the very sight of them worried me, and threatened to get on my nerves rather badly. It was a very lazy life for them-they had nothing to do all day but eat and drink and loll about, another example of easy-earned money. At last the day of my courtmartial arrived, and I was ordered to dress and was brought to the recep- tion-room. I saw a great number of soldiers and an officer, but I heard, too, the Governor's voice, and she was saying quietly but very firmly: “ NO; You cannot have the prisoner without the usual order for -.......- -.. ‘1...,’.. '-e

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