Illustration of Dublin, Ireland looking west along the River Liffey and showing the positions held by the Irish rebels. North of the Liffey, the General Post Office, headquarters of the rebellion, and Liberty Hall, from which the rebels had started on April 24, are in flames, bombarded by British forces. South of the River, forces led by Countess Markiewicz held St. Stephen's Green under fire from soldiers in the Shelbourne Hotel. Kilmainham Goal, where the captured rebels would be held, and where their leaders would be executed, is in the distance.
Reverse text:Overhead view of Dublin, looking westward up the River Liffey, showing the positions held by Sinn Feiners during struggle with British forces.Here is shown the scene of the Irish rebellion which figures in the capture of Sir Roger Casement, who now faces trial for high treason and a possible sentence to death. With him on the same charge will be tried Daniel J. Bailey, the Irish soldier, who landed on the Irish coast with Casement from a German submarine. The date of the trial has not been set, but it will probably take place in the near future.Stamped date: May 19, 1916.Stamp: From N.Y.H. Service New York CityStamp: View of Dublin showing positions . . .Stamp: . . . London . . . by the . . . Company
"Around me as I walked the rumour of war and death was in the air. Continually and from every direction rifles were crackling and rolling; sometimes there was only one shot, again it would be a roll of firing crested with single, short explosions, and sinking again to whip-like snaps and whip-like echoes; then for a moment silence, and then again the guns leaped in the air.The rumour of positions, bridges, public places, railway stations, Government offices, having been seized was persistent, and was not denied by any voice."
Irish poet and novelist James Stephens was in Dublin throughout the Easter Rising, the failed insurrection against British rule by members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers in April 1916 Easter week. Lacking the weapons that were being smuggled from Germany on a ship intercepted by the British fleet and sunk by her German crew, Eoin MacNeill, Chief of Staff of the Irish Volunteers, tried to prevent any insurrection by publishing a newspaper notice on Easter Sunday. Other Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood moved forward on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, a quiet bank holiday. Mustering at points throughout Dublin at 10:00 AM, the rebels by early afternoon had seized the General Post Office (GPO) and entrenched in St. Stephen's Green. At 12:25 PM, Patrick Pearse, addressing 'Irishmen and Irishwomen', proclaimed the establishment of the Irish Republic, reading a proclamation signed by Thomas Clarke, Seán Mac Diarmada, Thomas Macdonagh, Pearse himself, Eamonn Céannt, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett. With the GPO as its headquarters in central Dublin, the rebels also held Liberty Hall, Boland's Bakery to the east, Jacob's Biscuit Factory near St. Stephen's Green to the south, and the South Dublin Union to the west.
The Insurrection in Dublin by James Stephens, page 14, copyright © 1978, 1992 Colin Smythe Ltd., publisher: Colin Smythe, publication date: 1992
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