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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 n J ‘v-..,....-' 54 IN TIMES OF PERIL. keep in a Thermos flask, so that it was always soft and ready to use. One of the keys was an easy one to manage, as nearly every wardress had a duplicate of it on her bunch of keys, and this was often left out of her hands on the table, etc., but of the second key there were only three duplicates in the whole prison, and so to get its impression was a very diffi- cult task. However, suffice it to say that at last I had the impression of both. The keys were then made, and handed to me during another visit. Now, the first idea of escaping at all came to me from one of the male political prisoners. The hos- pital windows overlooked the ground where the “ murder gang,” as they were called, assembled for exercise, and I found that one of the windows in the corridor could be raised three or four inches from the bottom, and it was lowered more than half-an-inch from the top; and it was in this way that I got into communication with a friend of mine who was doing twenty years. His first salutation to me when he knew I was there was: “ Up, Sligo!” Another male prisoner, under sentence of death, used to attend the hospital to have a wound dressed, and he brought notes which he gave to a hospital political prisoner on exercise just underneath our window. A stone and a good aim did the rest, and I got a regular mail ! The notes were written to keep up my heart, and were full of humour and very amusing; I have them still as a souvenir of that time. It was this correspondent who gave me the first idea of trying to escape, for which I have to thank him. Now that it it is all over, I can say that I think I spoiled a stunt of his own which was coming

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