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The 1916 Diaries: of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier by Mick O'Farrell (Paperback, 2014)

This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916. In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brun wrote in his tiny diary about guard duties and a bicycle sortie to help de Valera, during which a sniper killed one of the cyclists. Meanwhile, across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades across Moore Street and participating in the executions of Pearse, Clarke and MacDonagh, giving new insights into the rebellion's grim closing days. Mick O'Farrell brilliantly juxtaposes these two accounts, including fascimilies that show through deteriorating handwriting the increasing pressure the diarists were under, to give a dramatic account of how ordinary participants experienced the events of Easter week.

Place of Publication
Cork
Content Note
30 Illustrations, Black and White
Author Biography
Mick O'Farrell was born in Dublin in 1966, the year of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising. He has been studying the history and locations of the Rising for some years. He is the author of '50 Things You Didn't know about 1916', 'A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916' and '1916: What the People Saw'.
Date of Publication
01/08/2014
Country of Publication
Ireland

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