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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 MY SENTENCE AND EXILE. 37 shedding ignominious tears before them all! I had some very good friends in Armagh. One of the District Nurses there used to visit me regularly, and bring me books, etc. But her local Committee re- ported her to headquarters, and one of her superior officers came, and held a courtmartial on the unfor- tunate girl, and she was told that she must either cease from visiting me or resign her position at once. She is now transferred to a Southern district, but I am sure she must miss the “civil and religious liberty ” of the North! I was taken to Belfast, and again locked for a couple of hours in the Bridewell there, and later brought somewhere in a closed motor van, a “ Black Maria.” At last we arrived at the quay, and I was put on board a steamer, and compelled to travel steerage. I asked for permission to remain on deck, and was told I could do so as soon as we were out of sight of land. When we were a good way out to sea I ven- tured up, and as it was a warm night I stayed on deck as long as I could. It was then only that the officer in charge told me that I was going to Walton Convict Prison at Liver- pool. Never shall I forget that night, as I stood on the deck of the vessel which was every moment taking me further from my dear country, and nearer to desolation and lonely misery, go where I was to be herded amongst the lowest and vilest of English criminals. I think the misery of a lifetime was con- tained in those few hours. We reached Walton some time the next morning, and then began my worst period of suffering. On arrival at the prison I was put into the horrid

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