‘Well dressed and from a respectable street’

Referring to events in and around Trinity College early on the Tuesday of Easter 1916, in a letter to William Hugh Blake conserved in the archives of Trinity College and dated 10 May 1916, Gerard Fitzgibbon writes: ‘One thing that terrified [us] was early on Tuesday morning, just after dawn. Three of their dispatch riders ... Read more

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