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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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REMOVAL FROM WALTON-IN M 0 UN TJ 0 Y. 51
VVhen I got oh’ the boat the first person I saw was
one of my dearest friends, who had managed to come
to meet me, and I fell into her arms with a cry of
delight. She was allowed to walk a little way with
me, and she was horrified to see me looking so ill,
and hardly able to walk. With tears in her eyes,
she said: “Oh, Linda, they have nearly killed
you!” I was brought to Mountjoy in a luxurious
motor, and got there just before dawn. The Chief
VVardress was up and gave me some tea and bread
and butter, the first real tea and real butter which I
had tasted for nearly six months! What nectar and
ambrosia it seemed to my unaccustomed palate! I
had a bath, and went to bed, and although the bed
was a plank, I slept soundly. A propos of the plank
bed, it is amusing how ridiculous some people are
about this. My sister believes to this day that the
political prisoners in Mountjoy had ordinary beds
and ordinary mattresses because the warder at the
gate told her, on one occasion, when she called
to see me, that we had beds as good as the bed
she herself slept upon! The hospital beds were
excellent, but the prison beds were very uncom-
fortable, and the plank was too short and too
narrow for me. Next day the doctor came to
see me, and was most courteous and kind. He
allowed me to stay in bed, and ordered me any
ameliorative treatment which the discipline per-
mitted. I got up on the following day, but felt
extremely weak, and on the third day I fainted when
I got out of bed, and was transferred to the hospital
on that afternoon. I was in bed for some days, and
the doctors were really good to me, and I shall
