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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 56 IN TIMES OF PERIL. away, and we others followed at intervals of a few moments each. I was the last to leave, and as I departed I got a good kick at the ball and gained a goal for the Rest of Ireland. I shouted “ Up, Sligo!” and those were my last words within the walls of Mountjoy. As I left I carefully locked the corridor doors with my duplicate keys; the three girls left behind kept up the noise on purpose, and we heard afterwards that it was almost two hours later before our escape was discovered. Those of us who were making our desperate bid for freedom met out- side, and a few minutes later we thought all was lost! The door of the officers’ quarters opened, and two wardresses came out, and passed close to where we stood flattened against the wall of the building, so close that I thought they must hear our very breath- ing and the thumping of our hearts! But they were chatting amongst themselves, and passed us by. If they had but guessed I wouldn't be telling this story now! At the arranged spot a small scent bottle was thrown-the pre-arranged signal-and the next moment the rope ladder came dangling over the wall, the wall that was 25 feet high! I took it and pulled it; the wall at the top is flat and square, and the rope caught and was torn! Again we thought we were lost, but it was fixed for us, and flung over again, and this time I pulled it carefully down, and then began to climb. Oh! the swaying and the swinging of that rope ladder! I often wonder now how I ever reached the top. But when I did reach the top, and sat on the wall for a minute and looked down at the 25 feet on the other downward side, and saw my

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