Revolutionary Lives by Arrington Lauren;

Author:Arrington, Lauren;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-02-23T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 9. Constance Markievicz arrives in O’Connell Street, Dublin, to address a meeting following her election victory in 1918. (Kilmainham Jail, 18PC-1A25–25.)

1 Account of the Rising by Jane Coffey (April 27, 1916), Coffey/Trench Papers, NLI, MS 46,315/4.

2 Murphy, Political Imprisonment, 56; Townshend, Easter 1916, 275.

3 Townshend, Easter 1916, 275–76.

4 Ibid., 276.

5 Ibid., 278.

6 Ibid., 277–78.

7 Ibid., 278.

8 Willie Pearse’s death sentence was based on hearsay evidence from an officer from the Inniskilling Fusiliers who was held captive in the GPO and testified, “I know that William Pearce was an officer but do not know his rank.” Ibid., 280, 282.

9 Ibid., 281.

10 Quoted in ibid., 279.

11 Ibid.

12 Court Martial Proceedings, “Constance Markievicz’s Statement,” PRONI, D4131/K/4 (1).

13 Barton, Secret Court Martial Records, 36.

14 Ibid., 46.

15 NA, HO 144/1580 /316818 (16).

16 Court Martial Proceedings, “Constance Markievicz’s Statement,” PRONI, D4131/K/4 (1).

17 Ibid.

18 NA, HO 144/1580 /316818 (16). Foy and Barton state that only Connolly, MacDermott, and Mallin faced this charge.

19 Ibid.

20 Ó Broin, W. E. Wylie.

21 Quoted in ibid., 36.

22 Ibid., 27. In his history of the court martial proceedings, Barton describes Wylie’s account as “patently inaccurate”and that it “reflected deep-rooted sexual prejudice and rank misogyny”; Townshend quibbles that Wylie’s “motive is obscure”; see Townshend, Easter 1916, 286; and Barton, Secret Court Martial Records, 97–99.

23 “Rebellion Inquiry,” Irish Times, May 26, 1916, 7.

24 Foy and Barton, Easter Rising, 325.

25 Quoted in Townshend, Easter 1916, 286.

26 Foy and Barton, Easter Rising, 299; and Barton, Secret Court Martial Records, 278. Only the last of these statements is true, since after Skinnider was wounded in a trial bombing run, Mallin refused to permit an attempt to bomb the Shelbourne.

27 Foy and Barton, Easter Rising, 297.

28 Holograph account by Eva Gore-Booth of visit to Dublin after Easter Rising; Newspaper Cuttings Book, NLI, MS 21,815; CA/BV/1 (1).

29 George Russell to Eva Gore Booth (May 6, 1916), PRONI, D/4131/L/12.

30 Ibid. ([Wednesday] 1916).

31 “Women in the Fight,” 125.

32 Foy and Barton, Easter Rising, 307.

33 Ibid.

34 Bibby, from County Carlow, was a professor of philosophy and theology, a supporter of temperance, and fluent in the Irish language, and he became an important contact for Republicans during the Irish Civil War.

35 “Copybook of the Writings of Countess Markievicz Whilst Imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail, May 1916,” Lissadell Collection.

36 Ibid.

37 Ibid.

38 Constance Markievicz to Gertrude Bannister (n.d.), NLI, MS 13075 (1). Piaras Beaslai also remembered being awakened by shooting at daybreak; See Foy and Barton, Easter Rising, 308. When Markievicz was released from prison, she gave the crucifix to Bannister.

39 Foy and Barton, Easter Rising, 314.

40 Holograph account by Eva Gore-Booth of visit to Dublin.

41 For a thorough discussion of Sheehy Skeffington’s arrest and execution, see Townshend, Easter 1916, 192–95; the degree of Sheehy Skeffington’s pacifism has been interrogated; see O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, “Shaw, Connolly, and the Irish Citizen Army,” 123–24.

42 See Townshend, Easter 1916, 195. Diarmid Coffey recorded in his diary the “contradictory reports of why Sheehy Skeffington was shot, one that he made a speech against the British Empire the other that he was caught urging a Volunteer to shoot a soldier.

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