We turned into Moore Lane on the left side of Moore Street and we went to the rear of the houses and tried each door but they were closed from within as the occupants had been ordered out.
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I went back to my position on Henry Street. I was first in the firing line from Nelson’s Column, a position which was dangerous also from Amien Street Station and Earl Street.
Coal Barricade: GPO 1916
At daybreak we were brought to the interior of the GPO to prepare for a siege. We erected a barricade of coal on the ground floor. The coal was carried, by relays of men, in Post Office sacks from the yard outside. This barricade was in case of attack.
GPO Easter 1916: under fire
Tom Clarke introduced me to Harry O’Hanaghan who was in charge of rifles and munitions. He gave me a Lee Enfield rifle and ammunition.
Thomas Clarke in GPO 1916
GPO Sackville Street Easter Wednesday 1916:
‘There were barricades with armed Volunteers at the entrance.
GPO : Wednesday: Easter Week ’16
It was Wednesday of Easter Week and the Rising in Dublin was in full progress.
I walked down Innisfallen Parade to Dorset Street and on to Gardiner Row. I had to detour as Royal Irish Rifles soldiers were clearing the people from Dorset Street from north to south.
Rankin Newry Memoirs 6
As I said, I left Newry via the Dromalane Road and Kate Linnegan’s Loanan which took me out near where Cloughogue new chapel stands.
Rankin’s Newry Memoirs 5
Preparations were being made for an uprising and the IRB, the Volunteers under Eoin Mac Neill and the Citizens Army were to be involved. On the Friday night before Easter John Southwell and I cycled to Dundalk to report progress.
Rankin Memoirs 3
Early in January 1914 I informed the Irish Club that I was going home to Ireland and they gave me a letter to deliver to John Devoy in New York (my point of embarkation).