About This Book
First-person letters written during an armed uprising in Dublin record day-to-day experience of siege and civic collapse. The writer recounts bombardment and incendiary fires that gutted central postal headquarters and nearby blocks, the heroic efforts of telephone and telegraph staff working under fire, ambulance and relief work for wounded and refugees, difficulties caused by lost records and disrupted services, intermittent sniping and strongholds refusing to surrender, the imposition of martial law and published proclamations, casualty and material-loss reports, and accompanying photographs and reproduced documents that underscore the immediacy of the eyewitness account.
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