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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 50 IN TIMES OF PERIL. so much towards the end of my stay that I could not settle to sleep for long afterwards. And the cells were so cold, the stone floors sent me to bed with cold feet, even during the beautiful weather of June and July of last year. I thank God that I was not a winter in Walton! At last the order for my transfer arrived on Sep- tember 15th, and I was told that I would be sent back to Ireland that night. When the Governor told me I could only ejaculate, “ Thank God!” I was very ill that day and for the two previous days, and had been seen by the doctor that morning, but the very thought of getting back to my beloved country gave me renewed strength, and I think that I was almost happy that day. I was brought from my cell at eight o'clock that night, and, oh! heavenly moment when I discarded the hateful convict garb which I saw no more! A wardress came over from Mountjoy for me, and when I was taken to the main gate I was very sur- prised to find only two policemen in plain clothes waiting for me with a taxi. It was, indeed, a change from my last journey, when a very strong guard accompanied me from Armagh, and another guard as strong met me at Liverpool docks. We travelled by night, and got to Dun Laoghaire very early in the morning, and when I realised that the shores of my beloved land were coming nearer and nearer to me out of the mists of the September dawn, I shed tears of joy. The wardress was most kind to me. She gave me some chocolate on the boat, saying at the same time: “ It's real Irish chocolate, and so you will like it.”

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