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Easter Rising.- O'Connell (Sir John Robert)

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4pp. & envelope, 8vo, Ard Einin, Killiney, Co. Dublin, 7th May 1916, an eye witness account of the Easter Rising: "Just a line to thank you very sincerely indeed for all your kindness & to say that I quite realise that it would have been impossible to have done more even before this truly deplorable rising put all other matters into the background. We seem to have travelled a long way since I wrote you first only a few weeks ago. A great deal of the Dublin, which you and I knew in our T[rinity] C[ollege] D[ublin] days has been wiped out. The G.P.O. which after more than 100 years was only completed three months ago is now in ruins; the Hibernian Academy is wiped out and the Curator Kavanagh a painter of some merit went down in the ruins. The Freemans Journal offices are gone as are also the supplementary printing works of the Irish Times. The loss of life has been very heavy not only amongst the military & the insurgents but amongst the innocent civilian population who imprisoned in their houses were forced to come out to buy food and were then sniped by soldiers or rebels. The Alma Mater saved the situation on Easter Monday by preventing the rebels from getting the Bank of Ireland and in various other ways the O.T.C. of T.C.D. did wonders; and an entrance exam and a parliamentary election were conducted within the walls of old Trinity while the roar of the machine guns almosty rendered the voices inaudible", folds.

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