Doing My Bit For Ireland

A first-person memoir recounts the author's participation in the Dublin rising, describing joining the Irish Volunteers, being wounded in action, and facing surveillance and brief detention. It blends personal hospital and travel episodes with vivid portraits of organizers and groups—an influential woman leader, the Fianna youth, and the Irish Citizen Army—and details preparations, hidden arms, and tactical thinking. The narrative links political conviction and suffragist commitment, reflects on risk and secrecy, and argues that local geography and popular organization made armed resistance a plausible strategy despite the uprising's ultimate failure.