€540
Eye-Witness Account of 1916 Easter Rising
Manuscript: Steven (Capt. George) A 20 page handwritten eyewitness account of the 1916 Rising in Dublin, by Captain George Steven, Inspector of Fisheries. Steven cycled around Dublin City throughout the Rising watching the fighting in different quarters. his account of Monday April 24 includes a description of "Sinn Feiners" inside St. Stephen's Green shooting dead an unarmed drunken man "of the labouring class" who had removed a trunk from a barricade. On Tuesday he witnessed the Fire Brigade attending a fire in Dunn's on Sackville Street and describes how an urchin raised barbed wire "on a pike" to allow the engine through and despite heavy firing on the street, the "firemen were not interfered with". "Early Wednesday morning our Fisheries Cruiser "Helga," now a formidable gun boat, slipped up the Liffey and threw a few shells under Butt Bridge right into Liberty Hall." Written in a clear hand thro.-out, as a m/ss, w.a.f.
* A most interesting first hand account of The Rebellion.
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