THE SINN FEIN REBELLION AS I SAW IT BY MRS. HAMILTON NORWAY (WIFE OF THE SECRETARY FOR THE POST OFFICE IN IRELAND) With Illustrations, and Reproduction of the Irish Republican Stamp on Cover LONDON SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1916 For these letters I claim no literary merit: they were written during a period of extraordinary strain for family perusal only, and are a faithful record hour by hour of the Sinn Fein rebellion as I saw it. The wide interest the letters excited in the

Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin, Tuesday, April 25th. Dearest G. ,—I am afraid by this time you will have seen a good deal in the papers to cause you alarm, and as it is impossible to get a letter or telegram through, I will write you a detailed account of what we are going through and post it to you at the first opportunity. To begin at the beginning, the Sinn Fein movement, which is now frankly revolutionary and which must not be confounded with Redmond's Nationalist Party, has be

Friday, 10 a.m. Dearest G.,—After all my letter did not get off last night, as the roads were too dangerous to admit of Dr. W. motoring Lord S. to Kingstown. He got a permit to pass our troops, but there were too many Sinn Fein positions and snipers to make it possible for them to pass through. If the position improves, he will go to-night, so I may be able to send this too, if I can write enough to make it worth while, but I am still rather shaky from a fright I had last night. Yesterday mornin

Sunday, April 30th, 10 a.m. Dearest G.,—When I closed my letter last night with the news that the rebel leaders had surrendered I hoped to start this new letter in a more cheerful strain; but while we were dining last night H. was rung up from the Castle to hear that the whole of Sackville Street north of the G.P.O. right up to the Rotunda was on fire and blazing so furiously that the fire brigade were powerless; nothing could go near such an inferno. There was nothing to be done but let the fir

Thursday, May 4th. Dearest G.,—I had not intended writing again so soon, but things are still happening that I think you will like to know, so I am going on with this series of letters, though I don't know when you will get them. But as by this time you will have seen N. you will have heard many details from him. How much he will have to tell his school-fellows when he returns to Shrewsbury to-morrow! I hoped to have sent my second and third letters by N., and in fact had actually packed them wi

Whereas , in different parts of Ireland certain evilly disposed persons and associations, with the intent to subvert the Supremacy of the Crown in Ireland, have committed divers acts of violence, and have with deadly weapons attacked the Forces of the Crown, and have resisted by armed forces the lawful authority of His Majesty's Police and Military Forces: And, WHEREAS , by reason thereof, several of His Majesty's liege subjects have been killed, and many others severely injured, and much damage

Poblaght na h Eireann. The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic . To the People of Ireland. Irishmen and Irishwomen : In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of Nationhood, Ireland , through us, summons her Children to her flag and strikes for her freedom. Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteer

Headquarters Army of the Irish Republic. General Post Office, Dublin. 28th April 1916—9.30 a.m. The Forces of the Irish Republic, which was proclaimed in Dublin on Easter Monday 24th April, have been in possession of the central part of the Capital since 12 noon on that day. Up to yesterday afternoon Headquarters was in touch with all the main outlying positions, and despite furious and almost continuous assaults by the British Forces all those positions were then still being held, and the Comma