Copy letter from Charles Lynch
A copy of a letter from Charles Lynch to ‘Willie’ giving an account of the opening hostilities of the Easter Rising. Reference is made to skirmishes, ambushes, and military casualties around the Four Courts on the North Quays and the General Post Office on Sackville Street in Dublin. The letter is titled ‘Letters from Dublin. Easter 1916. 1st Letter’.
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- 1916
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- 2
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- 2 pp; typescript
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- A copy of a letter from Charles Lynch to ‘Willie’ giving an account of the opening hostilities of the Easter Rising. Reference is made to skirmishes, ambushes, and military casualties around the Four Courts on the North Quays and the General Post Office on Sackville Street in Dublin. The letter is titled ‘Letters from Dublin. Easter 1916. 1st Letter’.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Letters of Charles Lynch relating to the 1916 Rising
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- Squadron mounted under command of Capt Bryce Wilson
- ited under command of Capt Bryce Wilson to the relief of the
- reaching Sackville St. . As they heard the General Post Office they
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Yackville St. Ames were distributed as far as they would go . As you troop stopping a bullet with his thigh it having already passed through on it's return along the Quayside , the escort came under heavy musketa called to the phone-and again he consulted the C.O. " It wondered the officer having a soft spot for one " old sweet " awarded me the screws show rifles were kept in store and issued as required . At a liberal ammunition comprising Snell Arms Ammunition , Hills Bombs , Rifle-Grenade and returned to barracks ' having temple ' , Arthur as Broadstone Bridge has resulting finally in a detachment committee to fifty haunted men in clear telephone bell above my head on the orderly room table wrote my been occupied by a solo rain detachment with a machine gun . and several men , besides wounded . Hard Luck on Thomson who had just As the adjustment was asked for . I went to the officer's quarters Orders were given to no which I passed on to Squadron . Set Major's reaching Sackville St. . As they heard the General Post Office they to the Four Courts . They took shelter in the houses each side of the I paraded for Main Guard on Easter Sunday evening , and two order ? I happen to have been in a favorable position for seeing the start of and up . and horse polished up to the nines , " Poor Dove . " The Squadron sent to their relief net with a very hot reception on You will have gathered from the success if you are in touch with adjacent houses and shops . Several muddles were emptied , Old Smith of for North Hullbacks at Dan. They were to escort several wages . Does books and other lumber . The valleys resulted in the death of Sgt's which had withdrawn themselves and suggestions into carries St next but one on the Western Front , that he here have been having a lively result of the message he received vent and consulted the Colonial The barracks settled with excitement when The Squadron returned sharp the trouble , so here is an eye witness account . and the details of the Swedish dancers have been striving to keep # The Colonel and Mr. Kilvain as a result of consultation described a lay . The night passed without incident until about him . When the as the Bundy Post Corporal here . He rode out in the morning , him The escort had been away about four hours when Mr. Hyrmann was par Willis . extimate there would be one rifle to , every three man . Letters from Dublin . his saddle . The Squadron being surrounded with hostile force and at a d from their windows covered their charges . There we will leave them as they were destined to remain unrelieved for several days . their dead and wounded who had been rushed into the hotels in ur courts whose windows had been burricuded with IAV five from the Four Courts whose windows had been burricided with Tares back to Phoenix Park Magazine . from France time-expired . Another Sergeant killed you'll remember The Squadron sent to their relief met with a very hot advantage ,mounted , on the granite sorts of Sackvil…
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