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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 LIFE IN WALTON CONVICT PRISON. 43 to be brought over to the. main block, and to join with us in pairs to go to chapel. My fellow-country- woman came over and fell into line with me, and we were able to exchange a few words, and only to hear her accent was to me like dew from heaven falling on my weary soul. We met thus for two consecu- tive Sundays; then a new rule was issued to the wardresses, to the effect that the hospital prisoners were to be brought straight to chapel without coming to the main block. This continued just while we two were both at Walton, but as soon as my political comrade left, the rule was abandoned, and the hos- pital prisoners came as usual to the main block, en route for the chapel. While she was still there, however, I was ordered to hospital myself after a medical examination, as I had become very weak, and I was sure that now at least we could not be kept apart. But, lo! and behold! when I was removed to the hospital, she was moved over to the prison proper. I was in bed for some weeks, and with the rest and some extra milk, I picked up strength again and gained in weight. As soon as I was fairly fit, I was moved back again to the prison, and the other poli- tical prisoner was sent to the hospital. It was a Cat and Mouse Act--as soon as we were well they sent us to the prison, and when we got done up again we were returned to the hospital. I do not know what I would have done all this terrible time if it had not been for the Chaplain. He was an Englishman and a convert, and one of God’s very own. He visited me very frequently, and consoled me and kept up my spirits. He was

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